Diffraction Dissociation and the Reggeized Absorption Model

Abstract
A simplified but self-consistent model calculation is made to include the effects of diffraction dissociation in the Reggeized absorption model of Henyey et al. The calculation provides a method for estimating their parameter λ, which describes the extra effect of diffractive dissociation. An estimate based on present experimental information is not as large as the value they need to fit the data.