Speaker
Uri Maor
(Tel Aviv University)
Summary
A conceptual issue which is re-vitalized every few years
is the rate at which the elastic p-p amplitude is getting closer to
saturation. Our expectations for a decisive new experimental information
are very low. AUGER has delivered, thus far, data of interest at 57 TeV from
which block has calculated the value of $\sigma_{inel}$.
Having no better option, I have scanned a few updated phenomenological
models and have reached the conclusion that, unless some unexpected feature
of soft scattering will be discovered, the elastic p-p amplitude
is nor expected to ever become saturated.
Primary author
Uri Maor
(Tel Aviv University)
