Reggeization of the Spinor in Yang-Mills Theory

Abstract

We extend the second-order part of the calculations of Gell-Mann et al. (on Reggeization of a spinor interacting with a massive, neutral vector meson) to the case of a massive, isovector vector meson interacting with the conserved vector current. We find that, in second order, the $I=\frac{1}{2}$ spinor remains a Regge pole, and that no isotopic spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ trajectory appears at the nonsense point. We also discuss the application of the Mandelstam counting procedure.