Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1991-10-10
Nucl.Phys. B392 (1993) 137-161
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
36pp
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90200-9
We propose using the general structure and properties of conformal field theory amplitudes, in particular those defined on surfaces with boundaries, to explore effective string theory amplitudes for some hadronic processes. Two examples are considered to illustrate the approach. In one a natural mechanism for chiral symmetry breaking within the string picture is proposed. One consequence is that the vertex operator for pion emission (at zero momentum) behaves like a world sheet current evaluated on the string boundary. This fact is used to rederive, in a more general setting, hadronic mass relations found in the early days of string theory by Lovelace, and Ademollo, Veneziano and Weinberg. In the second example, we derive the general structure of the form factor for the emission of a pomeron (interpreted as a closed string) from a meson or baryon. The result reconciles the interpretation of the pomeron as a closed string, emitted from the interior of the meson or baryon world sheet, with the additive quark rules for total hadronic cross sections. We also review the difficulties involved in constructing complete effective string theories for hadrons, and comment on the relation between the intercepts of trajectories and the short distance behavior of the underlying theory.
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