New Set of Kinematic Variables

Abstract

We study the dips and breaks in proton-proton and proton-antiproton elastic scattering data. We find that all the structure is well understood in terms of the global curves of Odorico, which are simply curves of $cos\varphi$=constant, where $cos\varphi$ is the proposed new variable. In particular, the low-energy $p\overline{p}$ data of Cline, English, and Reeder are reviewed and found to be well explained in terms of the Odorico curves.