Multiperipheral Bootstrap Model

Abstract

A crude bootstrap model is constructed, based on forward-direction unitarity and the multi-Regge hypothesis. The Pomeranchuk trajectory is generated by iteration of lower-meson trajectories, whose average residue is correlated with average trajectory height. Iteration of the Pomeranchuk turns out to be a small but nonvanishing perturbation that requires the effective average height of the Pomeranchuk trajectory to be slightly less than 1. The model yields a two-parameter formula for multiple-production cross sections that agrees satisfactorily with nucleon-nucleon data up to 30 GeV.