Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-03-17
Phys.Rev. C68 (2003) 017001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
5 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.68.017001
The spin-flavor structure of certain nucleon-nucleon scattering observables derived from the large N_c limit of QCD in the kinematical regime where time-dependent mean-field theory is valid is discussed. In previous work, this regime was taken to be where the external momentum was of order N_c which precluded the study of differential cross sections in elastic scattering. Here it is shown that the regime extends down to order N_c^{1/2} which includes the higher end of the elastic regime. The prediction is that in the large N_c limit, observables describable via mean-field theory are unchanged when the spin and isospin of either nucleon are both flipped. This prediction is tested for proton-proton and neutron-proton elastic scattering data and found to fail badly. We argue that this failure can be traced to a lack of a clear separation of scales between momentum of order N_c^{1/2} and N_c^1 when N_c is as small as three. The situation is compounded by an anomalously low particle production threshold due to approximate chiral symmetry.
Cohen Thomas D. .
Dakin Daniel C.
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