Phenomenological models of elastic nucleon scattering and predictions for LHC

0356867 - FZÚ 2011 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Kašpar, J. - Kundrát, Vojtěch - Lokajíček, Miloš - Procházka, J.
Phenomenological models of elastic nucleon scattering and predictions for LHC.
Nuclear Physics. B. Roč. 843, č. 1 (2010), s. 84-106. ISSN 0550-3213. E-ISSN 1873-1562
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LA08015
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100502
Keywords : high energy elastic hadron scattering
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
Impact factor: 4.642, year: 2010

hitherto analyses of elastic collisions of charged nucleons involving common influence of Coulomb and hadronic scattering have been based practically on West and Yennie formula. However, this approach has been shown recently to be inadequate from experimental as well as theoretical points of view. The eikonal model enabling to determine physical characteristics in impact parameter space seems to be more pertinent. The contemporary phenomenological models admitt, of course, different distributions of collision processes in the impact parameter space and cannot give any definite answer. Nevertheless, some predictions for the planned LHC energy that have been given on their basis may be useful, as well as the possibility of determining the luminosity from elastic scattering.
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