High energy hadron/endash/hadron collisions: Annual progress report

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6436519

Chou, T T

Results of a study on high energy collision with the geometrical model are summarized in three parts: the elastic hadron-hadron collision, the inelastic hadron/endash/hadron collision, and the e/sup +/e/sup /minus// annihilation. The geometrical description of high-energy elastic scattering developed earlier is still in very good general agreement with experiments at the CERN/endash/S/bar p/pS energies. This description has also been extended to include processes of fragmentation and diffraction dissociation and other phenomena. More recently a unified physical picture for multiparticle emission in hadron-hadron and e/sup +/e/sup /minus// collisions was developed. It focuses on the idea of the wide range of values for the total angular momentum in hadron/endash/hadron collisions. An extension of this consideration yields a theory for the momentum distribution of the outgoing particles which agrees with /bar p/p and e/sup +/e/sup /minus// collision experiments. The results and conclusions if this theory have been extrapolated to higher energies and yielded many predictions which can be experimentally tested. 36 refs.

• Research Organization: Georgia Univ., Athens (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• DOE Contract Number: FG09-84ER40160
• OSTI ID: 6436519
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40160-5; ON: DE89006647
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
ANNIHILATION
BASIC INTERACTIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS
FORM FACTORS
FRAGMENTATION
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS
MULTIPLICITY
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
PROGRESS REPORT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SCATTERING