T-Duality Considerations for Hadronic Strings

Authors

James A. Feigenbaum, Utah State UniversityFollow
P. G. Freund
M. Pigli

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physics Review D

Volume

56

Publication Date

1997

Abstract

We show that a simple account of hadronic high energy total cross sections and of the observed masses and flavor-gauge-like couplings of the familiar vector mesons is obtained in a hadronic string model suggested by QCD in the limit of a large number of colors. Our picture involves a Minkowski space which, in addition to the well-established continuous one time and three space dimensions, is endowed with an extra discrete space dimension involving a minimal two-point lattice with a spacing of order 10⁻¹⁴ cm in one of the two T-dual pictures. New mesonic states with characteristic decay modes are expected in such a picture.

Recommended Citation

Feigenbaum, J., P.G.O. Freund, and M. Pigli, (1997), “High Energy Hadronic Total Cross-Sections,” Physical Review D 56: 2596.