A Pomeron trajectory describing rising cross sections is generally a hard branch-point surface. Shielding cuts are introduced in order to make the Pomeron compatible with two-particle unitarity in the t channel. These shielding singularities may well be important phenomenologically.
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Reinhard Oehme (1974) studied this question.
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