Self-Consistency Requirement in High-Energy Nuclear Scattering
- 16 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (16) , 3506-3509
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.3506
Abstract
Practically all serious calculations of exclusive particle production in ultrarelativistic nuclear or hadronic interactions are performed in the framework of Gribov-Regge theory or the eikonalized parton model scheme. It is the purpose of this paper to point out serious inconsistencies in the above-mentioned approaches. We demonstrate that requiring theoretical self-consistency reduces the freedom in modeling high-energy nuclear scattering enormously, and we introduce a fully self-consistent formulation of the multiple-scattering scheme in the framework of a Gribov-Regge–type effective theory. In addition, we develop new computational techniques which allow for the first time a satisfactory solution of the problem in the sense that calculations of observable quantities can be done strictly within a self-consistent formalism.Keywords
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