Odderon: models vs experimental data - a short review of recent papers

Abstract

The surprising low TOTEM datum ${\rho }_{pp}$ = 0.09$\pm$0.01 at 13 TeV \cite{TOTEM-1} generated an important flux of papers, which can be classified in three categories: 1) papers which claim that this result is the first experimental discovery of the Odderon, namely in its maximal form; 2) papers which tried, without success, to find alternative explanations of this result; 3) papers which contest the discovery of the Maximal Odderon. In the present short note we discuss two recent papers belonging to the third category.

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