Exclusive Processes in QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics) and Spin-Spin Correlations.

摘要

The unexpected spin behavior observed in hard proton-proton collisions is described in terms of new degrees of freedom associated with the onset of strange and charmed thresholds. The deviation from dimensional scaling laws, the anomalous broadening of angular distributions, and the unusual energy dependence of pp quasielastic scattering in nuclear targets are also consistent with the onset of highly inelastic contributions to elastic pp amplitudes interfering with a perturbative QCD background. The model predicts significant charm production above 12 GeV/c and a relaxation of the spin correlation parameters to their scaling values at higher energies. 13 refs., 3 figs. (ERA citation 14:002199)