MULTI-REGGE CLUSTER MODEL VERSUS MULTIPARTICLE EXPERIMENTAL-DATA

We perform an analysis of predictions of the multi-Regge cluster model and compare them with available longitudinal and transverse data. We show that, although this model has some nice properties, it exhibits some bad features at the level of one particle distributions; in particular it is unable to explain the rise of the plateau in the one-particle inclusive cross section from FNAL to ISR, and the mean square transverse momentum of clusters, as computed from the pomeron slope, turns out to be too large. © 1979 Springer-Verlag.