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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Odderon Exchange from Elastic Scattering Differences between pp and pp¯ Data at 1.96 TeV and from pp Forward Scattering Measurements

S. ChoiA. JonckheereA. LobodenkoB. C.k. CaseyM. BrochmannJ. KasparJ. KasparJ. F. BartlettJ. M. HauptmanCecilia Elena GerberDaria ZieminskaRobert KehoeWade Cameron FisherG. GintherL. Welty-riegerG. GolovanovS. GianìJianming QianV. A. KuzminPedro G MercadanteG. AlkhazovDavid BrownM. CsanadVipin BhatnagarSergey BurdinS. P. DenisovA. EvdokimovD. MenezesMichael MulhearnV. GeorgievMarvin JohnsonL. S. VertogradovP. PalazziR. PartridgeGeorgy AntchevC. De Oliveira MartinsP. N. RatoffUbaldo BottigliV. BerardiK. DevaughanA. L. LyonVladimir IvanchenkoA. V. KozelovTamas NovakSuneel DuttA. AltonV. K. EreminH. Da MottaCecile DeterreHang YinBerkan KaynakKenneth BloomAndreas Werner JungGregorio BernardiV. L. MalyshevUlrich HeintzY. PetersLaurent ForthommeLaurent ForthommeP. SkubicV. AvatiV. AvatiMarco VerzocchiJ. P. AgnewM. C. CousinouW. M. Van LeeuwenE. E. BoosMaciej MalawskiY. N. KharzheevFrank FilthautM. DiesburgHal EvansFabrizio FerroThomas FerbelS. CihangirJ. KopalG. C. BlazeyS. 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OsterbergGraham WilsonArnulf QuadtH. BurkhardtChristopher George TullyY. W. LiuCole LindseyH. T. NguyenT. CsörgőS. UzunyanP. RubinovPushpalatha C BhatP. D. GrannisJ. KrausB. QuinnElemer NagyV. D. SamoylenkoF. OljemarkF. OljemarkN. K. MondalD. BolineH. T. DiehlLev DudkoI. SzanyiJ. L. HolzbauerP. AspellEmilien ChaponD. EdmundsD. R. ClaesGavin DaviesLidija ZivkovicD. LiArnaud DuperrinH. E. FiskEdoardo BossiniEdoardo BossiniJ. HammerbauerC. SchwanenbergerM. G. CatanesiM. MacríJ. FrancM. M. MeijerMarkus WobischMark Richard James WilliamsA. KumarA. BoehnleinAngelo De Souza SantosPatrick SlatteryH. HegabV. PariharEvgueni TcherniaevJ. SmajekH. NiewiadomskiA. GrohsjeanMario DeileThibault GuilleminY. ScheglovA. Y. VerkheevB. HoeneisenLee SawyerP. H. GarbinciusA. S. ItoAlice BeanD. DenisovAmnon HarelM. DoubekJ. ZennamoEmily JohnsonD. A. StoyanovaT. YasudaS. DesaiZdenek HubacekZdenek HubacekA. DubeyJ. SziklaiZhenyu YeAran Garcia-bellidoYuri GershteinPetr VokacN. 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HeadShih-chang LeeVladimir GavrilovK. EggertGordon WattsR. MadarM. LokajicekNazar StefaniukK. YipT. NunnemannM. S. RangelB. BaldinJose Andres Garcia-gonzalezE. De La Cruz-bureloJ. SirokyV. N. EvdokimovM. RominskyMartin GrunewaldJ. T. LinnemannM. OriunnoHarald FoxO. UrbanBrad AbbottAnthony RossFrigyes NemesCarlos AvilaVaclav VacekKonstantinos PetridisJason Dhia MansourM. SavitskyiT. ScanlonGuo-ming ChenX. LeJ. WarcholS. KermicheSuman Bala BeriCan WangPierre PetroffB. TuchmingL. SuterMilos LokajicekI. A. VasilyevJ. ClutterRaymond BrockM. HohlfeldAndrew BrandtV. M. PodstavkovDarien WoodP. LebrunPhillip GutierrezV. HynekC. Baldenegro BarreraR. BeuselinckJ. SnowJ. M. YuR. IllingworthW. GengW. GengJ. WeichertV. BunichevW. M. LeeCarsten HenselC. P. BuszelloTodd AdamsDmitri TsybychevR. L. MccarthyKamil AugstenN. KhalatyanLev UvarovP. NeustroevYuehong XieS. BlessingV. PassaroHorst SeveriniI. Ripp-baudotP. F. DingJ. JoshiR. Lopes De SáVladislav BorchshA. MeyerScott SnyderR. PasechnikFabrice CoudercD. HedinF. BadaudM. EadsA. C.s. Assis JesusGuennadi BorissovI. Heredia-de La CruzS. Söldner-remboldT. NaaranojaT. NaaranojaM. JaffréHakjae LeeB. S. AcharyaNicola TuriniV. KundrátVictor Daniel ElviraLeszek GrzankaRichard B. LiptonM. FortnerE. RadermacherS. AtkinsS. J. De JongE. RadicioniM. MerkinKristian HarderNeeti ParasharF. Lucas RodríguezJ. HoganAlexander KupcoA. FiergolskiQ. Z. LiI. KatsanosN. ParuaRandy RuchtiD. CuttsW. SnoeysWagner CarvalhoManjit KaurI. RazumovS. LamiM. ZielinskiJ. HaysA. ChandraK. SoustruznikI. KiselevichA. JusteA. A. ShchukinV. SimakFrank FiedlerSabine LammersR. F. RodriguesE. KajfaszMitchell WayneH. SchellmanH. SchellmanJ. M. KohliH. GreenleeStefan GrünendahlM. BuehlerA. BrossPh GrisM. BerrettiR. JesikC. TaylorJ. K. LimG. GrenierA. P. HeinsonF. De LeonardisM. A. PleierTerry Richard WyattJi ZhuSavanna Marie ShawEmanuela BarberisYuji EnariL. LosurdoF. MiconiM. BorysovaOleg BrandtJ. Martínez-ortegaBjoern PenningO. GogotaM. CookeW. L. Prado Da SilvaH. SaarikkoH. SaarikkoFederico RavottiJohn HobbsJ. BarretoM. R. AdamsSung Keun ParkA. Scribano

subject

Quantum chromodynamicsPhysicsElastic scatteringParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsForward scatterScatteringStrong interactionGeneral Physics and Astronomy01 natural sciencesScattering amplitudeCross section (physics)0103 physical sciences010306 general physicsBar (unit)

description

We describe an analysis comparing the p p ¯ elastic cross section as measured by the D0 Collaboration at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV to that in p p collisions as measured by the TOTEM Collaboration at 2.76, 7, 8, and 13 TeV using a model-independent approach. The TOTEM cross sections, extrapolated to a center-of-mass energy of s = 1.96 TeV , are compared with the D0 measurement in the region of the diffractive minimum and the second maximum of the p p cross section. The two data sets disagree at the 3.4 σ level and thus provide evidence for the t -channel exchange of a colorless, C -odd gluonic compound, also known as the odderon. We combine these results with a TOTEM analysis of the same C -odd exchange based on the total cross section and the ratio of the real to imaginary parts of the forward elastic strong interaction scattering amplitude in p p scattering for which the significance is between 3.4 σ and 4.6 σ . The combined significance is larger than 5 σ and is interpreted as the first observation of the exchange of a colorless, C -odd gluonic compound.

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.062003