Inelastic diffraction and role of reflective scattering at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how reflective scattering influences inelastic cross-sections at the LHC, providing insights into high-energy diffraction phenomena and their implications for particle physics models.

Contribution

It introduces the role of reflective scattering mode in explaining the energy dependence of inelastic cross-sections at the LHC.

Findings

Reflective scattering mode becomes significant at high energies.

Diffractive and non-diffractive inelastic cross-sections are affected by reflective scattering.

LHC data supports the presence of reflective scattering mode.

Abstract

We discuss the high-energy dependencies of diffractive and non-diffractive inelastic cross-sections in view of the recent LHC data which revealed a presence of the reflective scattering mode.