Evidence of Odderon-exchange from scaling properties of elastic scattering at TeV energies

Dec 26, 2019
60 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 81 (2021) 2, 180
  • Published: Feb 23, 2021
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Abstract: (Springer)
We study the scaling properties of the differential cross section of elastic proton–proton (pp) and proton–antiproton (ppˉp\bar{p}) collisions at high energies. We introduce a new scaling function, that scales – within the experimental errors – all the ISR data on elastic pp scattering from s=23.5\sqrt{s} = 23.5–62.5 GeV to the same universal curve. We explore the scaling properties of the differential cross-sections of the elastic pp and ppˉp\bar{p} collisions in a limited TeV energy range. Rescaling the TOTEM pp data from s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV to 2.76 and 1.96 TeV, and comparing it to D0 ppˉp\bar{p} data at 1.96 TeV, our results provide an evidence for a t-channel Odderon exchange at TeV energies, with a significance of at least 6.26σ\sigma . We complete this work with a model-dependent evaluation of the domain of validity of the new scaling and its violations. We find that the H(x) scaling is valid, model dependently, within 200 GeVs8200~\hbox {GeV}\le \sqrt{s} \le 8 TeV, with a t-t range gradually narrowing with decreasing colliding energies.
Note:
  • Accepted in EPJ C, with typos fixed, reorganized institutions updated, Appendix A, B, C, D, E added, 60 pages, 29 figures, 13 tables, Odderon significance: 6.26 sigma, conclusions unchanged
  • p p: scattering
  • energy: high
  • odderon: exchange
  • scaling
  • differential cross section
  • elastic scattering
  • rescaling
  • anti-p p: scattering
  • TOTEM
  • DZERO