Anomaly in the differential cross sections at 13 TeV

Abstract

The analysis of the new TOTEM data at 13 TeV in a wide momentum transfer region reveals the unusual phenomenon - the presence in the elastic scattering amplitude of a term with a very large slope that is responsible for the behaviour of hadron scattering at a very small momentum transfer. This term can be connected with hadron interactions at large distances.

Comments: 16 page, 10 figures, 4 Tables; text expanded