Do Total Cross Sections for Scattering of Off-Shell Particles Grow Like a Power of the Energy?
- 28 April 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (17), 1118-1122
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.1118
Abstract
Let be the total cross section for scattering of meson on some target, with the off-shell mass of . It is shown that, when (the physical mass), quantum chromodynamics suggests that, as the c.m. energy squared approaches , where is calculable for large . This is compatible with the Froissart bound, but only for on-shell particles, provided . It is shown that there is experimental evidence supporting such behavior.
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