  Under the influence of standardly used description of Coulomb-hadronic
interference proposed by West and Yennie the protons have been interpreted as
transparent objects; elastic events have been interpreted as more central than
inelastic ones. It will be shown that using eikonal model the protons may be
interpreted in agreement with usual ontological conception; elastic processes
being more peripheral than inelastic ones. The corresponding results (differing
fundamentally from the suggested hitherto models) will be presented by
analyzing the most ample elastic data set measured at the ISR energy of 52.8
GeV and the LHC energy of 8 TeV. Detailed analysis of measured differential
cross section will be performed and possibility of peripheral behavior on the
basis of eikonal model will be presented. The impact of recently established
electromagnetic form factors on determination of quantities specifying hadron
interaction determined from the fits of experimental elastic data will be
analyzed. The influence of some other assumptions on proton characteristics
derived from elastic hadronic amplitude determined on the basis of experimental
data will be studied, too.
