Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1848965 | Physics Letters B | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We discuss how hadronic total cross sections at high energy depend on the details of QCD, namely on the number of colours NcNc and the quark masses. We find that while a “Froissart”-type behaviour σtot∼Blog2sσtot∼Blog2s is rather general, relying only on the presence of higher-spin stable particles in the spectrum, the value of B depends quite strongly on the quark masses. Moreover, we argue that B is of order O(Nc0) at large NcNc, and we discuss a bound for B which does not become singular in the Nf=2Nf=2 chiral limit, unlike the Froissart–Łukaszuk–Martin bound.
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Authors
Matteo Giordano, Enrico Meggiolaro,