# ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE SLOPES OF DIFFRACTION CONE IN SINGLE DIFFRACTION DISSOCIATION AND ELASTIC SCATTERING

## Abstract

The fundamental relation betwen the slopes of diffraction cone in single diffraction dissociation and elastic scattering has been derived.

PACS numbers: 11.80.-m, 13.85.-t, 21.30.+y

Keywords: diffraction dissociation, three-body forces, elastic scattering, total cross-sections, slope of diffraction cone, interpretation of experiments.

Not long ago we observed that the slope $`b_{SD}`$ of diffraction cone in single diffraction dissociation $`NNNX`$ was related to the effective interaction radius $`R_0`$ for the three-body (three-nucleon) forces 

$$b_{SD}(s,M_X^2)=\frac{1}{2}R_0^2(\overline{s},s_0^{}),$$
(1)   
$$\overline{s}=2(s+M_N^2)M_X^2,s_0^{}=2s_0,$$

where $`s_0`$ is a scale defining unitarity saturation asymptotic in hadron-hadron interaction. At the same time it was established that the quantity $`R_0^2`$ was related to the structure of hadronic total cross section in a physically clear and transparent form  (see also )

$$\sigma ^{tot}(s)=2\pi \left[B^{el}(s)+R_0^2(s)\right]\left(1+\chi (s)\right),$$
(2)   
where $`B^{el}`$ is the slope of diffraction cone in elastic $`NN`$ scattering and

$$\chi (s)=O\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{s}\mathrm{ln}^3s}\right),s\mathrm{}.$$

This circumstance gives rise to the nontrivial consequences which are discussed in this note.

Let us define the slope $`B^{sd}`$ of diffraction cone in a single diffraction dissociation at the fixed point over the missing mass

$$B^{sd}(s)=b_{SD}(s,M_X^2)|_{M_X^2=2M_N^2}.$$
(3)   
Now taking into account Eq. (2), where the effective interaction radius for three-body forces can be extracted from 

$$R_0^2(2s,2s_0)=R_0^2(s,s_0)=\frac{1}{2\pi }\sigma ^{tot}(s)B^{el}(s),$$
(4)   
and the equation

$$\sigma ^{el}(s)=\frac{\sigma ^{tot}(s)^2}{16\pi B^{el}(s)},(\rho =0),$$
(5)   
we come to the fundamental relation between the slopes in the single diffraction dissociation and elastic scattering

$$\overline{)B^{sd}(s)=B^{el}(s)\left(4X\frac{1}{2}\right)},$$
(6)   
where

$$X\frac{\sigma ^{el}(s)}{\sigma ^{tot}(s)}.$$
(7)   
The quantity $`X`$ has a clear physical meaning, it has been introduced in the papers of C.N. Yang and his collaborators .

In paper  we search for $`X=0.25`$ at $`\sqrt{s}=1800GeV`$. Hence in that case we have $`B^{sd}=B^{el}/2`$ which is confirmed not so badly in the experimental measurements .

In the limit of black disk $`(X=1/2)`$ we obtain

$$B^{sd}=\frac{3}{2}B^{el},$$
(8)   
and

$$B^{sd}=B^{el},atX=\frac{3}{8}=0.375.$$
(9)   
So, we find that there is quite a nontrivial dynamics in the slopes of diffraction cone in the single diffraction dissociation and elastic scattering processes. In particular, we can study an intriguing question on black disk limit not only in the measurements of total hadronic cross sections compared with elastic ones but in the measurements of the slopes in single diffraction dissociation processes together with elastic scattering ones.

There is a more general formula which can be derived with account of the real parts for the amplitudes. This formula looks like

$$\overline{)B^{sd}(s)=B^{el}(s)\left(4X\frac{1\rho _{el}(s)\rho _0(s)}{1+\rho _{el}^2(s)}\frac{1}{2}\right)},$$
(10)   
where $`\rho _0`$ is defined in terms of three-body forces scattering amplitude similar to $`\rho _{el}`$ . If $`\rho _{el}=0`$ or $`\rho _0=\rho _{el}`$ then we come to Eq. (6). In the case when $`\rho _{el}0`$, we can rewrite Eq. (10) in the form

$$\rho _0=\frac{1}{\rho _{el}}\left[1\frac{1+\rho _{el}^2}{8X}\left(1+\frac{2B^{sd}}{B^{el}}\right)\right].$$
(11)   
Eq. (11) can be used for the calculation of the new quantity $`\rho _0`$. Anyway it seems that the measurements of real parts for the amplitudes will play an important role in the future high energy hadronic physics.

Equations (6,10) can be rewritten in a unique form

$$\frac{Y}{Y^{}}+\frac{1}{2}=\alpha _\varrho X,$$
(12)   
where the quantity $`Y`$ has also been introduced in the above mentioned papers of C.N. Yang and his collaborators 

$$Y=\frac{\sigma ^{tot}}{16\pi B^{el}},$$
(13)   
$`\alpha _\varrho `$ is a known function of $`\rho `$’s (see Eq. (10)) and we introduced a new dimensionless quantity $`Y^{}`$

$$Y^{}=\frac{\sigma ^{tot}}{16\pi B^{sd}}.$$
(14)   
It is obvious

$$\frac{Y}{Y^{}}\frac{B^{sd}}{B^{el}},$$
(15)   
and we have for the quantity $`\alpha _\varrho =4`$ if $`\rho _{el}=0`$ or $`\rho _0=\rho _{el}`$.

Equation (12) represents the fundamental constraint on three dimensionless quantities $`Y,Y^{}`$ and $`X`$. It would be very desirable to experimentally study this constraint.