SU(3) Reaction Inequalities at High Energies

Abstract

SU(3) reaction inequalities which had been thought to be violated are re-examined and found to agree with experiment at high energy. The comparison is made for both integrated and forward amplitudes. The apparent validity of SU(3) puts limits on the high-energy behavior of the amplitude differences $\left|M\right(K^{-}+p\to K^{-}+p)-M({\pi }^{-}+p\to {\pi }^{-}+p\left)\right|$ and $\left|M\right(K^{+}+p\to K^{+}+p)-M({\pi }^{+}+p\to {\pi }^{+}+p\left)\right|$.