High-energy interactions and a multi-Regge-pole hypothesis

Abstract

It is assumed that in certain well-defined kinematic regions, production amplitudes may be described as due to the exchange of a number of Regge poles, and formulas are given expressing the amplitude in terms of the permitted trajectories. Experimental tests and consequences of the hypothesis are discussed. Tests should be possible at present accelerator energies. The hypothesis leads to strong damping of production cross sections in the invariant momentum transfers, and therefore could serve as the basis for the assumptions of a previous paper.