Elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC

Khoze, V.A.; Martin, A.D.; Ryskin, M.G.

Abstract

Inspired by the new TOTEM data on elastic pp scattering at 13 TeV, we study the possibility to describe all the diffractive collider data (, , ) in a wide interval of energy (0.0625 to 13 TeV) in the framework of a two-channel eikonal model. We show that a satisfactory description can be achieved without an odd-signature (Odderon) exchange contribution. We consider the possible role of the QCD Odderon which may improve the description of ρ and discuss the importance of the odd-signature term if the amplitude were to exceed the black disc limit.

Citation

Khoze, V., Martin, A., & Ryskin, M. (2018). Elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 784, 192-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.054

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 29, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jul 31, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 10, 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 16, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 16, 2018
• Journal: Physics Letters B
• Print ISSN: 0370-2693
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 784
• Pages: 192-198
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.054