On "soft" physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

TL;DR

This paper discusses key aspects of 'soft' physics phenomena at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, focusing on total cross sections and diffraction processes in proton-proton, proton-antiproton, and proton-deuteron scattering.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of total cross sections and diffraction dissociation in soft scattering at LHC energies, integrating multiple related topics.

Findings

Measured total cross sections for pp and p̄p collisions.

Analyzed single diffraction dissociation cross sections.

Examined the total cross section defect in p(d) scattering.

Abstract

Three tightly inter-related topics have been discussed: the $pp(p\bar p)$ total cross section; the single diffraction dissociation cross section; the $p(\bar p)d$ total cross section and the defect of the total cross section in scattering from deuteron.