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Correlations among elastic and inelastic cross-sections and slope parameter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-09-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We discuss the unitarity motivated relations among the elastic cross-section, slope parameter and inelastic cross-section of the high energy \textit{pp} interaction. In particular, the MacDowell-Martin unitarity bound is written down in another form to make a relation between the elastic and inelastic quantities more transparent. On the basis of an unitarity motivated relation we argue that the growth with energy of the elastic to total cross-section ratio is a consequence of the increasing with energy of the \textit{inelastic interaction intensity}. The latter circumstance is an underlying reason for the acceleration of the slope parameter growth, for the slowing of the growth of the elastic to total cross-section ratio and for other interesting phenomena, which are observed in the TeV energy range. All of this confirms the old idea that the elastic scattering is a shadow of the particle production processes.

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@article{arxiv.1808.07901,
  title  = {Correlations among elastic and inelastic cross-sections and slope parameter},
  author = {A. P. Samokhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07901},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures

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