Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Baryon-baryon elastic scattering is considered in the independent scattering (Landshoff) mechanism. It is suggested that for scattering at moderate energies direct and interchange quark channels contribute with equal color coefficients because the quark color is randomized by soft gluon exchange during the hadronization stage. With this assumption, it is shown that the ratio of cross sections ${R}_{\frac{\overline{p}p}{\mathrm{pp}}}$ at a c.m. angle $\ensuremath{\theta}=90\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}$ decreases from a high energy value of ${R}_{\frac{\overline{p}p}{\mathrm{pp}}}\ensuremath{\approx}\frac{1}{2.7}$, down to ${R}_{\frac{\overline{p}p}{\mathrm{pp}}}\ensuremath{\approx}\frac{1}{28}$, compatible with experimental data at moderate energies. This sizable fall in the ratio seems to be characteristic of the Landshoff mechanism, in which changes at the quark level have a strong effect precisely because the hadronic process occurs via multiple quark scatterings. The effect of color randomization on the angular distribution of proton-proton elastic scattering and the cross section ratio ${R}_{\frac{\mathrm{np}}{\mathrm{pp}}}$ is also discussed.
Author: Michael G. Sotiropoulos
Institution: University of Southampton
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2043914163