CGC/saturation approach: soft interaction at the LHC energies

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that the CGC/saturation approach effectively describes soft interactions at LHC energies, including recent 13 TeV data, supporting its role as a key theory in high energy QCD.

Contribution

The paper shows that the CGC/saturation model can accurately describe soft interactions at LHC energies, including new experimental data, reinforcing its validity as a high energy QCD effective theory.

Findings

Model describes 13 TeV soft interactions successfully.

Supports CGC/saturation as the primary high energy QCD framework.

Aligns with recent TOTEM experimental data.

Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate that our model which is based on the CGC/saturation approach, is able to describe the soft interaction collisions including the new TOTEM prelimenary data at 13 TeV. We believe that this strengthens the argument that the CGC/saturation approach is the only viable candidate for an effective theory for high energy QCD.