The Naked Truth about Hadronic Regge Trajectories

Abstract

We have reconstructed Regge trajectories (RT), using all existing data on masses and spin-parities of all currently known hadrons. In this resonance energy region meson and baryon RT are grossly nonlinear, and only 12% of all RT could be classified as a linear, with $\sigma =0$, ${\alpha }^{\prime }\simeq 0.9$ GeV${}^{-2}$.

11 pages, 2 figures, Postscript