pp Elastic Scattering at LHC and Signature of Chiral Phase Transition at Large |t|

Abstract

A model of $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ elastic scattering developed previously to analyze ISR and SPS Collider data is extended to predict $pp$ elastic differential cross section at LHC at c.m. energy of 14 TeV and momentum transfer range $|t|=0$ - 10 GeV$^2$. Role of the gauged linear $\sigma$-model as an underlying field theory model describing nucleon structure and elastic scattering is discussed. Possibility of finding evidence of a chiral phase transition at large $|t|$ in the proposed TOTEM project at LHC is pointed out.