pp Elastic Scattering at LHC and Signature of Chiral Phase Transition at Large |t|
Abstract
Description
A model of $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ elastic scattering developed previously to analyze ISR and SPS Collider data is extended to predict $pp$ elastic differential cross section at LHC at c.m. energy of 14 TeV and momentum transfer range $|t|=0$ - 10 GeV$^2$. Role of the gauged linear $σ$-model as an underlying field theory model describing nucleon structure and elastic scattering is discussed. Possibility of finding evidence of a chiral phase transition at large $|t|$ in the proposed TOTEM project at LHC is pointed out.
Presented at the Fifth Workshop on QCD, Villefranche, France, Jan. 2000 (to be published in Proceedings of the Workshop)
Presented at the Fifth Workshop on QCD, Villefranche, France, Jan. 2000 (to be published in Proceedings of the Workshop)