Measurements of Particle Spectra in Diffractive Proton--Proton Collisions with the STAR Detector at RHIC
Measurements of Particle Spectra in Diffractive Proton--Proton Collisions with the STAR Detector at RHIC
We analyze the recently discovered phenomena in elastic proton-proton scattering at the LHC, challenging the standard Regge-pole theory: the low-|t| "break" (departure from the exponential behavior of the diffraction cone), the accelerating rise with energy of the forward slope B(s, t = 0), absence of secondary dips and bumps on …