A generalised area law for hadronic string reinteractions

A new model for hadronic string reinteractions based on a generalised area law is presented. The model describes both the hadronic final states in e+e− annihilation and the diffractive structure function in deep inelastic scattering. The model also predicts a shift in the W-mass reconstructed from hadronic decays of W-pairs of the order 65 MeV.