Unitarity Bounds on Diffraction Dissociation

Sukhatme, U.P.; Henyey, F.S.

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(76)90557-5

Unitarity Bounds on Diffraction Dissociation

U.P. Sukhatme
(
- Cambridge U.
)
,
F.S. Henyey
(
- Michigan U.
)

May, 1976

10 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 108 (1976) 317-326

Published: 1976

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(76)90557-5

Report number:

DAMTP 76/4

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

Using s -channel unitarity and the standard picture that diffraction dissociation and elastic scattering are the shadow of non-difractive particle production, we derive rigorous upper bounds for the diffraction dissociation cross section. The bounds are valid at each impact parameter, and are derived for an arbitrary number N of difractive channels. Our results are a generalization of previously derived bounds for the special simple case of N = 2 channels.

P P: DIFFRACTION
DIFFRACTION: DISSOCIATION
DIFFRACTION: CROSS SECTION
CROSS SECTION: DIFFRACTION
UNITARITY
CROSS SECTION: BOUNDARY CONDITION
NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS