Holographic description of total hadronic cross sections at high energies

Abstract

We investigate the hadron-hadron total cross sections at high energies in the framework of holographic QCD. In our model setup, the involved strong interaction is described by the Brower-Polchinski-Strassler-Tan Pomeron exchange kernel, and the two form factors are obtained from the bottom-up AdS/QCD models. We show that the resulting nucleon-nucleon total cross section is consistent with the experimental data recently measured by the TOTEM collaboration at the LHC. As examples to see the general versatility of the model, we also present our analysis on the pion-nucleon and pion-pion cases, which can be predicted because all the adjustable parameters are fixed by the nucleon-nucleon data.

7 pages, 2 figures, prepared for the proceedings of QCD@Work 2018 - International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics, 25 - 28 June 2018, Matera, Italy

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