Elastic Wide-Angle Hadronic Scattering

The most recent CERN Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) elastic $\mathrm{pp}$ data are compared with predictions of the vector-meson-gluon model. The model is also used to examine and predict qualitative features of high-energy $\mathrm{pp}$, $\mathrm{np}$, $p\overline{p}$, ${\pi }^{\pm }p$, $K^{\pm }p$ elastic reactions, $\gamma p\to {\pi }^{+}n$, ${\pi }^{-}p\to {\pi }^{0}n$, and $K^{-}p\to {\overline{K}}^{0}n$ at very large momentum transfers. The various processes are related to each other within the model by identifying the soft vector mesons as $\omega \text{'}\mathrm{s}$ and determining relative $\omega$ couplings by assuming that the $\omega$ couples to the hypercharge current.