Interpretation of an "edge" in proton-proton scattering
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-12-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
A study of proton-proton collisions at very high energy has revealed a "black disk," whose radius grows with the logarithm of the center-of-mass energy, surrounded by an edge of approximately constant width 1 fm. We interpret this behavior as the maximum length of a QCD string connecting the color triplet and antitriplet components of the proton, and propose further tests of this explanation.
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@article{arxiv.1409.5813,
title = {Interpretation of an "edge" in proton-proton scattering},
author = {Jonathan L. Rosner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5813},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Some references and acknowledgments added