The odderon discovery by the D0 and TOTEM collaborations

TL;DR

The paper reports the discovery of the odderon, a colorless C-odd gluonic state, through analysis of elastic scattering data from the D0 and TOTEM collaborations, providing evidence for a long-sought QCD phenomenon.

Contribution

It presents the first experimental evidence for the odderon by comparing proton-proton and proton-antiproton scattering data at high energies.

Findings

Identification of differences in elastic cross sections between pp and p̄p interactions.

Experimental confirmation of the odderon as a C-odd gluonic compound.

Supports QCD predictions of the odderon’s existence.

Abstract

We describe the discovery of the colorless $C$-odd gluonic compound, the odderon, by the D0 and TOTEM Collaborations by comparing elastic differential cross sections measured in $pp$ and $p \bar{p}$ interactions at high energies.