Classical scattering of Mesons

Abstract

The theory of "action at a distance" proposed by Wheeler and Feynman for electrodynamics has been extended by various authors to meson fields. It is shown here that the cross sections for the scattering of mesons by nucleons in various cases (charge, dipole, or isotopic spin scattering for scalar or vector mesons) obtained in this theory differ from those obtained in the classical field theory by the absence of those terms which have been interpreted as modification of the nucleon parameter involved in the scattering, due to the reaction of the meson field on the nucleon.