https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0074-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
How can the odderon be detected at RHIC and LHC?
Theory Group, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
* e-mail: nicolesc@lpnhep.in2p3.fr
Received:
10
July
2006
Revised:
29
August
2006
Published online:
26
October
2006
The odderon remains an elusive object, 33 years after its invention. The odderon is now a fundamental object in QCD and it has to be found experimentally if QCD is right. In the present paper, we show how to find it at RHIC and LHC. The most spectacular signature of the odderon is the predicted difference between the differential cross-sections for proton–proton and antiproton–proton at high s and moderate t. This experiment can be done by using the STAR detector at RHIC and by combining these future data with the already present UA4/2 data. The odderon could also be found by the ATLAS experiment at LHC by performing a high-precision measurement of the real part of the hadron elastic scattering amplitude at small t.
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