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Comment on "More on Heisenberg's model for high energy nucleon-nucleon scattering"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-05-04 v1

Abstract

We comment on the treatment of asymptotic black-disk scattering in a recent paper of Nastase and Sonnenschein, Phys.\ Rev.\ D\ {\bf 92}, 015028 (2015), on scattering in an updated version of the Heisenberg model which gives pppp and pˉp\bar{p}p cross sections which increase at very high energies as ln2s\ln^2s. We show that the total cross section they define does not correspond to that measured in experiments, with the result that their limit for the ratio σelas/σtot\sigma_{\rm elas}/\sigma_{\rm tot} is too small by a factor 2. The correct ratio for black-disk scattering, σelas/σtot1/2\sigma_{\rm elas}/\sigma_{\rm tot} \rightarrow 1/2 for ss\rightarrow\infty, is strongly supported by experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1604.01832,
  title  = {Comment on "More on Heisenberg's model for high energy nucleon-nucleon scattering"},
  author = {Martin M. Block and Loyal Durand and Phuoc Ha and Francis Halzen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01832},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures; Accepted for publication as a Comment in Physical Review D