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Odderon Form Factors in Reggeized Spin-2 Pomeron and Spin-3 Odderon Exchange in $pp$ and $p\bar p$ Elastic Scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the form-factor dependence of Reggeized tensor Pomeron and Odderon exchanges in high-energy elastic pppp and ppˉp\bar p scattering. The spin structure is implemented through explicit covariant spin-2 and spin-3 projectors, kept factorized from the Reggeized scalar kernels, so that vertex effects can be separated from trajectory dynamics. Seven Odderon--proton form-factor parametrizations are tested against a global dataset including TOTEM pppp data at s=2.76\sqrt{s}=2.76, 77, 88, and 1313~TeV and Tevatron ppˉp\bar p data at s=1.80\sqrt{s}=1.80 and 1.961.96~TeV. A clear hierarchy is found. Six dipole, polynomial, Gaussian, and hybrid parametrizations give comparable fit qualities, χred21.44\chi^2_{\rm red}\simeq 1.44--1.481.48, whereas a one-parameter exponential form, FO(t)=exp[Bt/2]F_{\mathbb O}(t)=\exp[-B|t|/2], yields χred2=0.98\chi^2_{\rm red}=0.98 for 138 degrees of freedom. The fitted couplings and Regge slopes remain comparatively stable across the form-factor choices, indicating that the improvement is driven mainly by the Odderon--proton vertex rather than by large compensating shifts in trajectory parameters. The exponential form admits an impact-parameter interpretation as a Gaussian transverse profile, with an effective radius b2=2Bc\sqrt{\langle b^2\rangle}=\sqrt{2B}\,\hbar c. The extracted radii are of hadronic size and suggest a peripheral soft Odderon interaction. The shrinking tt-range over which the single-Regge-exchange description remains accurate at increasing energy indicates the onset of absorptive and unitarity corrections. These results provide a compact phenomenological framework for connecting the pp/ppˉpp/p\bar p dip--bump difference with the transverse structure of CC-odd color-singlet exchange.

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@article{arxiv.2605.25636,
  title  = {Odderon Form Factors in Reggeized Spin-2 Pomeron and Spin-3 Odderon Exchange in $pp$ and $p\bar p$ Elastic Scattering},
  author = {Dominador F. Vaso, and Prin Sawasdipol and Jingle B. Magallanes and Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul and Daris Samart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25636},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables