Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-08-18
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21:1-42,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
49 pages including 17 figures. Submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X06028473
High energy proton-proton and antiproton-proton elastic scattering are studied first in a model where the nucleon has an outer cloud and an inner core. Elastic scattering is viewed as due to two processes: a) diffraction scattering originating from cloud-cloud interaction; b) a hard or large |t| scattering originating from one nucleon core scattering off the other via vector meson omega exchange, while their outer clouds interact independently. The omega-exchange amplitude shows that omega behaves like an elementary vector meson at high energy, contrary to a regge pole behavior. This behavior, however, can be understood in the nonlinear sigma-model where omega couples to a topological baryonic current like a gauge boson, and the nucleon is described as a topological soliton. Further investigation shows that the underlying effective field theory model is a gauged linear sigma-model that has not only the pion sector and the Wess-Zumino-Witten action of the nonlinear sigma-model, but also a quark-scalar sector. The nucleon structure that emerges is that the nucleon has an outer cloud of quark-antiquark condensed ground state, an inner core of topological baryonic charge probed by omega, and a still smaller quark-bag containing massless valence quarks. Large |t| pp elastic scattering is attributed to valence quark-quark elastic scattering, which is taken to be due to the hard pomeron. The model is applied to predict pp elastic differential cross section at LHC at c.m. energy 14 TeV and |t| = 0 - 10 GeV*2. If our predicted differential cross section is quantitatively confirmed by precise measurement at LHC by the TOTEM group, then it will indicate that various novel ideas developed over the last four decades to describe the nucleon combine and lead to a unique physical description of its structure.
Islam Monirul Md.
Luddy R. J.
Prokudin A. V.
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