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Analyticity; slope parameter; scaling; asymptotic equality; unitarity bound; energy dependence; predictions; polynomial expansion

A phenomenological representation for differential cross-section recently proposed using Mandelstam analyticity and convergent polynomial expansion (CPE) which has been found to be successful in describing scaling of the differential cross-section-ratio data for several elastic diffractive and inelastic nondiffractive processes is used to analyse the energy dependence of the slope-parameter data at high energies, extrapolate the slope parameter and predict the differential cross-section ratio as a function of |t| at higher energies forπ^±pndK⁺p scattering. Following the method of Hansen and Krisch it is found that, in spite of the existence of rather widely varying data points for nearbys values, a more systematic trend in the energy dependence of the slope parameter emerges when a statistical average of the existing high-energy data is used. Extrapolating the fits to the average data ontos → ∞ provides strong evidence in favour of a model-independent result that asymptotically theπ^±p slopes may be equal. There is also a strong indication to the effect that each of these two slopes may be equal to theK⁺p slope fors → ∞. Using the scaling curves generated by the existing data on differential cross-section ratio and extrapolated values of the slope parameter, the differential cross-section ratio for each of the three processes is predicted as a function of |t| for higher energies.

N Giri^{1 2} M K Parida¹

1. Post-Graduate Department of Physics, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Burla - 768 017, India
2. Department of Physics, Gangadhar Meher College, Sambalpur - 768 002, India

Published

April 1981

Manuscript received

4 November 1980