Inclusive experiments, exchange degeneracy, and Reggeon total cross sections

Abstract

We present some results concerning the triple-Regge domain of inclusive distributions. We show that exchange degeneracy requires the equality of the proton-Reggeized-ρ and the proton-Reggeized-A₂ total cross sections, and then we extract this cross section from data on the reaction K⁺p→K⁰+ anything. This cross section turns out to be of the same order as physical meson-proton cross sections for a range of Reggeon mass. We derive relationships between different inclusive distributions, such as pp→pX, K⁺p→K⁺X, and K⁺p→K⁰X, and get good agreement with data. We suggest that other inclusive distributions, such as pp→π⁺X, may be calculated using as input only our knowledge of two-body reactions.