New physics from TOTEM's recent measurements of elastic and total cross sections
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-04-10 v3
Abstract
We analyze the recently discovered phenomena in elastic proton-proton scattering at the LHC, challenging the standard Regge-pole theory: the low- "break" (departure from the exponential behavior of the diffraction cone), the accelerating rise with energy of the forward slope , the absence of secondary dips and bumps on the cone and the role of the odderon in the forward phase of the amplitude, , and especially its contribution at the dip region, measured recently by TOTEM. Relative contributions from different components to the scattering amplitude are evaluated from the fitted model.
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@article{arxiv.1808.03588,
title = {New physics from TOTEM's recent measurements of elastic and total cross sections},
author = {István Szanyi and Norbert Bence and László Jenkovszky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03588},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
20 pages, 15 figures, 1 table (some explanations added, misprints corrected)