Impact picture for near-forward elastic scattering up to LHC energies

We will recall the main feaatures of an accurate phenomenological model to describe successfully near-forward elastic scattering in a wide energy range, including ISR, SPS and Tevatron colliders. A large step in energy domain is accomplished with the LHC collider, presently running, giving the opportunity to confront the new data with the predictions of our theoretical approach.
Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Invited talk presented by Jacques Soffer at DIFFRACTION 2014, September 10 - 15, 2014, Primosten, Croatia (To be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings)