In recent years, the discovery of the odderon, a colorless C-odd gluonic
compound, has been confirmed in the TOTEM and D0 collaborations. However, the
spin quantum number of the odderon remains unidentified. In this work, we aim
to attribute a spin of J=3 to the odderon in pp elastic scattering by
calculating the helicity amplitudes and the corresponding complex parameter
r5​, the ratio of helicity's single-flip to non-flip amplitudes, for the
spin-3 tensor odderon with the standard spin-2 tensor pomeron exchanges. Then,
we apply these results to the constraints obtained from the STAR experiment at
RHIC. By comparing to the contributions of the spin-1 vector odderon and spin-2
tensor pomeron, we demonstrate that the spin-3 tensor odderon, i.e. J=3,
provides a better explanation for the observable in pp elastic scattering.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure