In his Comment, D. Bugg argues against our usage of the Particle Data Group collection of light nonstrange states together with the half-width rule to analyze the linearity of radial and angular-moment Regge trajectories in the large-$N_c$ limit. After taking into account his observations on our choice of data, the radial Regge trajectories are again analyzed. We still find that our conclusion on the lack of universality between radial- and angular-momentum Regge trajectories is valid.

• Received 14 March 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.118502