pp Elastic Scattering at LHC and Nucleon Structure (Conference Report)

• Main Authors: Islam, M. M, Luddy, R. J, Prokudin, A. V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 29-07-2003
• Subjects: Physics - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0307355

AIP Conf.Proc.698:142-147,2004 High energy elastic pp differential cross section at LHC at the c.m. energy
14 TeV is predicted using the asymptotic behavior of sigma-tot(s) and rho(s),
and the measured pbar-p differential cross section at sqrt{s}=546 GeV. The
phenomenological investigation has progressively led to an effective field
theory model that describes the nucleon as a chiral bag embedded in a
quark-antiquark condensed ground state. The measurement of pp elastic
scattering at LHC up to large |t| >~ 10 GeV^2 by the TOTEM group will be
crucial to test this structure of the nucleon.