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By using realistic models for elastic hadron scattering, we demonstrate that at present accelerator energies the s-channel unitarity bound is safe, not to be reached before \(10^5\) GeV, while the black disc limit is saturated around 6 TeV. By increasing the energy, a larger transparency of the scattered particles near the center, surrounded by a black ring, is expected. Unitarity effects are incorporated and their effects are studied both in a phenomenological and formal, analytical way.
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Received: 8 May 1999 / Published online: 22 October 1999
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Desgrolard, P., Jenkovszky, L. & Struminsky, B. Where is the black disc limit?. Eur. Phys. J. C 11, 145–151 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900154
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900154