Hadronic total cross sections, Wilson loop correlators and the QCD spectrum

Giordano, Matteo and Meggiolaro, E. (2016) Hadronic total cross sections, Wilson loop correlators and the QCD spectrum. NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS PROCEEDINGS, 273-27. pp. 2780-2782. ISSN 2405-6014

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Abstract

We show how to obtain rising hadronic total cross sections in QCD, in the framework of the nonperturbative approach to soft high-energy scattering based on Wilson-loop correlators. Total cross sections turn out to be of "Froissart"-type, i.e., the leading energy dependence is of the form σtot~Blog2s, in agreement with experiments. The observed universality of the prefactor B is obtained rather naturally in this framework. In this case, B is entirely determined by the stable spectrum of QCD, and predicted to be Bth=0.22 mb, in fair agreement with experiments.

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