  We discuss how the main features of the recent LHC data on elastic scattering
can be described by a QCD-inspired formalism with a dynamical infrared mass
scale. For this purpose new developments on a dynamical gluon mass approach are
reported, with emphasis on a method to estimate uncertainty bounds in the
predictions for the high-energy scattering observables. We investigate the
effects due to the correlations among the fixed and free parameters involved
and show that the band of predictions are consistent with the recent data from
the TOTEM experiment, including the forward quantities and the differential
cross section up to the dip position.
