A Regge Model for Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Amplitudes

William Ford
ODU

We present a model to calculate nucleon-nucleon (NN) scattering 
amplitudes, for Mandelstam s greater than 6 GeV2. The model, 
based on Regge theory, is fully relativistic, and exhibits full 
spin dependence. We relate the Regge exchanges to the Fermi 
invariants, which gives an organized, and simplified method to 
incorporate Regge exchanges into the NN amplitudes. Preliminary 
results are presented.