Current stage of understanding and description of hadronic elastic diffraction

Abstract

Current stage of development of the high-energy elastic diffractive scattering phenomenology is reviewed. Verification of various theoretical models via comparison of their predictions with the recent D0 and TOTEM data on the nucleon-nucleon total and differential cross-sections is presented.

Comments: Talk given at DIFFRACTION 2012, the 7th International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, September 10-15, 2012, Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Canary Islands