The s-channel unitarity condition for the imaginary part of the hadronic elastic scattering amplitude outside the diffraction peak is studied within different assumptions about the behavior of its real part. The integral equation for the imaginary part is derived with the asymptotical expression for the real part inserted in the unitarity condition. The conclusions about the asymptotical approach to the black disk limit and possible zeros of the imaginary part of the amplitude are obtained. Their relation to the present day experiments is discussed.
The model-independent solution of the s-channel unitarity condition for the imaginary part of the hadronic elastic scattering amplitude outside the diffraction peak allows to make conclusions about its real part at nonzero transferred momenta. The asymptotical properties of the ratio of the real to imaginary part of the amplitude are discussed. In particular, it is explicitly shown that the ratio changes its sign at a defnite value of the transferred momentum. Some comments concerning the present day experimental results about the behavior of the differential cross-section of elastic scattering outside the diffraction cone are given.
The partial differential equation for the imaginary part of the elastic scattering amplitude is derived. It is solved in the black disk limit. The asymptotical scaling behavior of the amplitude coinciding with the geometrical scaling is proved. Its extension to preasymptotical region and modifications of scaling laws for the differential cross section are considered.
A new method for the determination of the real part of the elastic scattering amplitude is examined for high energy proton-proton elastic scattering at small momentum transfer. This method allows us to decrease the number of model assumptions, to obtain the real part in a narrow region of momentum transfer and to test different models. The real part is computed at a given point t_min near t=0 from the known Coulomb amplitude. Hence one obtains an important constraint on the real part of the forward scattering amplitude and therefore on the rho-parameter (measuring the ratio of the real to imaginary part of the scattering amplitude at t=0), which can be tested at LHC.
We report on a measurement of the asymmetry in the scattering of transversely polarized electrons off unpolarized protons, A$_perp$, at two Q$^2$ values of qsquaredaveragedlow (GeV/c)$^2$ and qsquaredaveragedhighII (GeV/c)$^2$ and a scattering angle of $30^circ < theta_e < 40^circ$. The measured transverse asymmetries are A$_{perp}$(Q$^2$ = qsquaredaveragedlow (GeV/c)$^2$) = (experimentalasymmetry alulowcorr $pm$ statisticalerrorlow$_{rm stat}$ $pm$ combinedsyspolerrorlowalucor$_{rm sys}$) $times$ 10$^{-6}$ and A$_{perp}$(Q$^2$ = qsquaredaveragedhighII (GeV/c)$^2$) = (experimentalasymme tryaluhighcorr $pm$ statisticalerrorhigh$_{rm stat}$ $pm$ combinedsyspolerrorhighalucor$_{rm sys}$) $times$ 10$^{-6}$. The first errors denotes the statistical error and the second the systematic uncertainties. A$_perp$ arises from the imaginary part of the two-photon exchange amplitude and is zero in the one-photon exchange approximation. From comparison with theoretical estimates of A$_perp$ we conclude that $pi$N-intermediate states give a substantial contribution to the imaginary part of the two-photon amplitude. The contribution from the ground state proton to the imaginary part of the two-photon exchange can be neglected. There is no obvious reason why this should be different for the real part of the two-photon amplitude, which enters into the radiative corrections for the Rosenbluth separation measurements of the electric form factor of the proton.
We discuss some nuclear effects, RPA correlations and 2p2h (multinucleon) mechanisms, on charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions that do not produce a pion in the final state. We study a wide range of neutrino energies, from few hundreds of MeV up to 10 GeV. We also examine the influence of 2p2h mechanisms on the neutrino energy reconstruction.