https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08867-6
Regular Article – Theoretical Physics
Evidence of Odderon-exchange from scaling properties of elastic scattering at TeV energies
1
Wigner FK, POB 49, 1525, Budapest 114, Hungary
2
MATE Institute of Technology, Károly Róbert Campus, Mátrai út 36, 3200, Gyöngyös, Hungary
3
CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
Received:
29
December
2019
Accepted:
12
January
2021
Published online:
23
February
2021
We study the scaling properties of the differential cross section of elastic proton–proton (pp) and proton–antiproton (
) collisions at high energies. We introduce a new scaling function, that scales – within the experimental errors – all the ISR data on elastic pp scattering from 
–62.5 GeV to the same universal curve. We explore the scaling properties of the differential cross-sections of the elastic pp and collisions in a limited TeV energy range. Rescaling the TOTEM pp data from 
TeV to 2.76 and 1.96 TeV, and comparing it to D0 data at 1.96 TeV, our results provide an evidence for a t-channel Odderon exchange at TeV energies, with a significance of at least 6.26
. We complete this work with a model-dependent evaluation of the domain of validity of the new scaling and its violations. We find that the H(x) scaling is valid, model dependently, within 
TeV, with a 
range gradually narrowing with decreasing colliding energies.
Before February 1, 2021: Szent István University, Károly Róbert Campus.
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