Odderon Form Factors in Reggeized Spin-2 Pomeron and Spin-3 Odderon Exchange in $pp$ and $p\bar p$ Elastic Scattering
Abstract
We investigate the form-factor dependence of Reggeized tensor Pomeron and Odderon exchanges in high-energy elastic and 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 data at , , , and ~TeV and Tevatron data at and ~TeV. A clear hierarchy is found. Six dipole, polynomial, Gaussian, and hybrid parametrizations give comparable fit qualities, --, whereas a one-parameter exponential form, , yields 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 . The extracted radii are of hadronic size and suggest a peripheral soft Odderon interaction. The shrinking -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 dip--bump difference with the transverse structure of -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