Analysis of ATLAS pp elastic measurements at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV and comparison with TOTEM measurements

TL;DR

This paper compares ATLAS and TOTEM measurements of proton-proton elastic scattering at 13 TeV, showing that differences are mainly due to normalization, and analyzes the scattering amplitudes revealing similar qualitative properties.

Contribution

It provides a detailed comparison of ATLAS and TOTEM elastic scattering data at 13 TeV and applies the KFK model to analyze the real and imaginary amplitudes.

Findings

Differences between measurements are due to normalization factors.

Both experiments show similar qualitative features in scattering amplitudes.

The real part has three zeros and the imaginary part has one zero, affecting the $ ho$ parameter.

Abstract

A comparative description is made of the measurements at LHC of pp elastic scattering at 13 TeV by the ATLAS and TOTEM Collaborations. In the total and differential cross sections we show that the differences are justified through single numerical factor. It seems that there is no fundamental physical difference, but only a difference of normalization between the two experiments. We study the real and imaginary amplitudes disentangled with the KFK (Kohara-Ferreira-Kodama) model and show that the properties are similar in qualitative aspects for both experiments. The real and imaginary parts have different slopes at the origin and present zeros, with distributions that are common to several models, with three zeros in the real part and one zero in the imaginary amplitude. A zero in the real part, known as Martin's zero, influences the determination of the $\rho$ parameter.