Two-component structure of the geometrical pomeron

Phenomenological observations at FNAL and CERN-ISR confirm the dominance of the short-range correlation (SRC) over the long-range correlation (LRC) in multihadronic production and suggest geometrical scaling and two-component structure of the pomeronic amplitude. It is of physical importance to investigate the theoretical features of central and peripheral components of the geometrical pomeron within the framework of an absorptive multiperipheral unitarization. The first-step unitarization of the dipole pomeron (DPP) has already been studied along the line (see ibid., vol.14, p.380, 1975). The second- step unitarization of the DPP is performed by the self-consistent introduction of the LRC component and the possible stability of the two-component structure under absorption is examined. (8 refs).