The odderon and spin-flip dependence of high energy proton-proton scattering

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the odderon influences the spin dependence of high-energy proton-proton scattering, especially the asymmetry A_{NN}, and proposes methods to extract this dependence from experimental data.

Contribution

It demonstrates the sensitivity of spin asymmetries to the odderon and introduces approaches to determine the odderon's spin-dependent coupling from small-t scattering data.

Findings

Spin asymmetry A_{NN} is sensitive to the odderon.

Proposes methods to extract odderon spin dependence from data.

Highlights potential for experimental detection of odderon effects.

Abstract

The sensitivity of the spin dependence of high energy pp scattering, particularly the asymmetry A_{NN}, to the odderon is demonstrated. Several possible ways of determining the spin dependence of the odderon coupling from small-t data are presented.