10–15 Sept 2012
Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Do we understand elastic scattering up to LHC energies?

14 Sept 2012, 09:50
20m
Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Canary Islands (Spain)
Talk at plenary session Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions Diffraction in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (II)

Speaker

Prof. Jacques Soffer (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Summary

The measurements of high energy $\bar p p~\mbox{and}~p p$ elastic at ISR, SPS, and Tevatron colliders have provided usefull informations on the behavior of the elastic scattering amplitude. A large step in energy domain is accomplished with the LHC collider presently running, giving a unique opportunity to improve our knowledge on the asymptotic regime of the elastic scattering amplitude and to verify the validity of our theoretical approach, to describe the total cross section $\sigma_{tot}(s)$, the total elastic cross section $\sigma_{el}(s)$, the ratio of the real to imaginary parts of the forward amplitude $\rho(s)$ and the differential cross section ${d\sigma (s,t)/dt}$.

Primary author

Prof. Jacques Soffer (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Presentation materials