Meson-Baryon and Baryon-Baryon Reactions in a Quark Model

Abstract

An "independent-quark model" for mesons and baryons which recently was applied very successfully to elastic scattering at high energies, is extended to inelastic meson-baryon and baryon-baryon reactions. A number of relations between cross sections are derived, most of which are independent of $\mathrm{SU}\left(3\right)\mathrm{}$. The agreement with the available data is fair except for one case, but more data at higher energies are needed for a detailed test of the model.