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Differential cross sections for high energy elastic hadron-hadron scattering in nonperturbative QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

Total and differential cross sections for high energy and small momentum transfer elastic hadron-hadron scattering are studied in QCD using a functional integral approach. The hadronic amplitudes are governed by vacuum expectation values of lightlike Wegner-Wilson loops, for which a matrix cumulant expansion is derived. The cumulants are evaluated within the framework of the Minkowskian version of the model of the stochastic vacuum. Using the second cumulant, we calculate elastic differential cross sections for hadron-hadron scattering. The agreement with experimental data is good.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808320,
  title  = {Differential cross sections for high energy elastic hadron-hadron scattering in nonperturbative QCD},
  author = {E. R. Berger and O. Nachtmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808320},
  year   = {2016}
}

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30 pages, 14 figures