Testing the black disk limit in $pp$ collisions at very high energy

Abstract

We use geometric scaling invariant quantities to measure the approach, or not, of the imaginary and real parts of the elastic scattering amplitude, to the black disk limit, in $pp$ collisions at very high energy.

11 pages, 4 figures

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• Proton-proton elastic scattering at the LHC energy of {\surd} = 7 TeV
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• Evolution equation for soft physics at high energy

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