High energy hadron-hadron collisions. Final report

This project of studying high energy collision phenomena with the geometrical model has been undertaken and developed by this investigator and collaborators since 1967. Instead of basing conjectures on mathematical extrapolations from some ad hoc theories, this approach was to scrutinize first the general features of the phenomena before going into specific details. This particular method has proved successful in correlating experimental data, suggesting experiments, predicting new phenomena and guiding future experimental studies. In the following, important results of the geometrical model obtained with the support of the DOE grant are summarized in three parts: the elastic hadron-hadron scattering, the inelastic hadron-hadron collision, and the hadronic production in e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} annihilation. The fourth part of this report outlines the results of other topics of investigation. To avoid repetition, only the main physical ideas and essential experimental evidences are presented, leaving out detailed discussions which can be found in the literature and previous reports