Elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC

V. A. Khoze, A. D. Martin, M. G. Ryskin

Inspired by the new TOTEM data on elastic $pp$ scattering at 13 TeV, we study the possibility to describe all the diffractive collider data (${\sigma }_{\mathrm{tot}},d{\sigma }_{\mathrm{el}}/dt$, $ρ\equiv…