# Model-Independent Femtoscopic Lévy Imaging for Elastic Proton-Proton Scattering

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## Abstract

A model independent Lévy expansion method is introduced to describe nearly Lévy shaped squared moduli of Fourier transforms. We apply this method to precisely characterize the most recent elastic scattering data of proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt s = 13$$ TeV. The results reveal a substructure of protons, which is found to be significantly larger and darker in high energy proton-proton collisions at the TeV scale, as compared to a rather faint and apparently overlooked substructure, that we also identify in elastic proton-proton scattering at the ISR energy range of $$\sqrt s = 23{\kern 1pt} - {\kern 1pt} 62$$ GeV.

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• CERN
• Eszterhazy Karoly University
• Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
• Federal University of Santa Catarina
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• Subatomic Physics
Original language English 227-231 5 Physics of Particles and Nuclei 51 3 Published - 2020 May 20 Research Yes