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Soft Pomeron in the Colour Glass Condensate approach

In this paper we suggest a new approach to the structure of the soft Pomeron: based on the $t$-channel unitarity, we expressed the exchange of the soft Pomeron through the interaction of the dipole of small size of the order of $1/Q_s(Y)$ ($Q_s(Y)$ is the saturation momentum) with the hadrons. Therefore, it is shown that the typical distances in soft processes are small $r \sim 1/Q_s\Lb \h Y \Rb $, where $Y \,=\,ln s$. The saturation momentum, which determines the energy dependence of the scattering amplitude is proportional to $ Q^2_s\Lb \h Y \Rb \propto\,\exp\Lb\h λ\,Y\Rb$, with $λ\approx\,0.2$, and this behaviour is in perfect agreement with phenomenological Donnachie-Landshoff Pomeron. We demonstrate that the saturation models could describe the experimental data for $σ_{tot},σ_{el},σ_{diff} $ and $B_{el}$. Hence our approach is a good first approximation to start discussion of the soft processes in CGC approach on the solid theoretical basis.