Soft Pomeron Intercept

Abstract

We show that simple Regge pole fits to the imaginary and the real part of the elastic amplitude in pp and pbar p collisions give a value of 1.096+0.012-0.009 for the pomeron intercept. Preliminary results of the new global fits to all hadron total cross sections as well as to the proton structure function at low x and low Q2 are briefly mentioned.

LaTeX, 12 pages, 5 postscript figures