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Nonperturbative QCD Effects in High Energy Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

High energy hadron-hadron collisions are discussed. It is argued that soft collisions should involve in an essential way nonperturbative QCD. A way is outlined how to calculate properties of high energy elastic hadron-hadron scattering using field theoretic methods. The functional integrals occuring there are evaluated using the ``stochastic vacuum model''. A satisfactory comparison between theory and experiment is achieved. Then the question of possible nonperturbative QCD effects in high energy hard hadron-hadron collisions is raised. It is shown that some spin effects in the Drell-Yan process may give a hint that such effects exist indeed in nature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411345,
  title  = {Nonperturbative QCD Effects in High Energy Collisions},
  author = {Otto Nachtmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411345},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Talk presented at the 18th Johns Hopkins Workshop, Florence, 1994 LaTeX, no special macros required, 18 pages; figs appended as uuencoded ps