We discuss some phenomenological applications of an infrared finite gluon propagator characterized by a dynamically generated gluon mass. In particular we compute the effect of the dynamical gluon mass on $pp$ and ${ \bar{ p}}p$ diffractive scattering. We also show how the data on $\gamma p$ photoproduction and hadronic $\gamma \gamma$ reactions can be derived from the $pp$ and $\bar{ p}p$ forward scattering amplitudes by assuming vector meson dominance and the additive quark model.
Categories: hep-ph