Abstract
The scattering of hadrons at high energies can be described by a distribution function of cross sections, which incorporates the phenomena of color transparency and color opacity. We infer here a cross-section distribution for pionic projectiles on nucleons consistent with the data on the moments of the distribution. Using this distribution we calculate the probability for a pion to be in a pointlike configuration and compare with predictions based on a combination of perturbative QCD and QCD sum rules. Comparison with the corresponding distribution for nucleon-nucleon scattering shows that color transparency effects should be more pronounced for a meson beam.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 896-899 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1993 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy