Abstract
It is demonstrated through an explicit model that the weak high-subenergy tail of the multiperipheral kernel, acting in conjunction with the strong low-subenergy component, is capable of producing a high-ranking output Regge doublet with vacuum quantum numbers. We show that association of the upper doublet member with the (Pomeranchon) and the lower with the is consistent with experimental total, elastic, and diffractive dissociation cross sections, as well as with multiplicity of produced pions, and predicts a Pomeranchon slope near that is roughly half normal. As becomes negative, the Pomeranchon slope decreases to a small value, while for positive the slope increases to a normal value, the trajectory containing the particles usually assigned to the . The latter trajectory has a converse behavior, with small slope for positive and normal slope at negative . The and trajectories thus exchange "normal" and "abnormal" roles near .
- Received 27 February 1970
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.1.3453
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