Roman Pasechnik
Senior lecturer
Lévy imaging of elastic scattering and proton hollowness at 13 TeV
Author
Summary, in English
The shape of elastic differential cross section within and beyond the diffractive cone at 13 TeV pp collision energy has been shown to be precisely described by the Lévy series expansion in whole available range of momentum transfers. This way, the crucial information about the real and imaginary parts of the elastic amplitude has been obtained resulting in precision reconstruction of the proton inelasticity profile. We have found that the profile function P(b) undergoes a qualitative change at √s ≈ 7 TeV collision energy. At small values of the impact parameter b a P(b) ≈ 1 plateaux develops, which becomes depressed at larger energies, such that a shallow minimum is formed near b = 0. We have evaluated the corresponding error bar and found such a hotly debated proton hollowness (or “black-ring”) effect with beyond 5σ significance.
Department/s
- Theoretical Particle Physics - Has been reorganised
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Publication/Series
Proceedings of Science
Volume
364
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Conference name
2019 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2019
Conference date
2019-07-10 - 2019-07-17
Conference place
Ghent, Belgium
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1824-8039