ON THE LARGE-t ELASTIC SCATTERING AT $\sqrt{s} = 7~{\rm TeV}$

We discuss discrimination of the scattering mechanisms on the basis of functional dependencies of the large-t elastic scattering suggested by the recent data from the TOTEM experiment. It is shown that Orear exponent is in a better agreement with the data than the power-like dependence used by the TOTEM. This implies that the collective dynamics is dominating over the point-like mechanism related to the scattering of the proton constituents. We also emphasize that vanishing of the helicity-flip amplitudes contributions at the LHC energies would result in appearance of the dip–bump structures at higher values of transferred momenta.