Unitarity at the LHC energies

Abstract

Phenomena related to the non-perturbative aspects of strong interactions at the LHC are discussed with emphasis on elastic and inelastic soft and hard diffraction processes. Predictions for the global characteristics and angular distributions in proton-proton collisions with elastic and multiparticle final states are given. Potential for discovery of the novel effects related to the increasing role of the elastic scattering at the LHC energies and its physical implications in diffractive and multiparticle production processes are reviewed.