1996/07/19 by A. Donnachie, A Donnachie, P.V. Landshoff +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Differential (mechanical device) #Elastic scattering #Energy (signal processing) #Excited state #Gluon #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Scattering cross-section #Singlet state #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)01065-9
published as Phys.Lett. B387 (1996) 637-641 · 6 pages, plain tex, 3 figures embedded with epsf
arxiv created 1996/07/19 · openalex publication_date 1996/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Existing data for large-t pp elastic-scattering differential cross-sections are energy-independent and behave as t-8. This has been explained in terms of triple-gluon exchange, or alternatively through triple-singlet exchange. A discussion is given of the problems raised by each of these explanations, and of the possibility that at RHIC or LHC energies the exchange of three BFKL pomerons might result in a rapid rise with energy.