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  • noun physics A Regge trajectory postulated in 1961 to explain the slowly rising cross section of hadronic collisions at high energies.

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Isaak Pomeranchuk (1913-1966), Soviet physicist.

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Examples

  • Whatever this "object" is, you will call it a pomeron.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • In perturbative gauge theory, such pomeron exchange is conveniently and traditionally visualized in terms of Feynman diagrams that are proportional to the minimum power of

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • When you think for a little while, this pomeron exchange leads to the exchange of DNA-like diagrams: the diagrams look like ladder diagrams or DNA.

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