title: Total nucleon-nucleon cross section at large N(c).
abstract: It is shown that at sufficiently large N(c) for incident momenta which are much larger than the QCD scale, the total nucleon-nucleon cross section is independent of incident momentum and given by σ(total)=2πlog(2)(N(c))/(m(π)(2)). This result is valid in the extreme large N(c) regime of log(N(c))>>1 and has corrections of relative order log(log(N(c)))/log(N(c)). A possible connection of this result to the Froissart-Martin bound is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA. cohen@physics.umd.edu
authors.forename: Thomas D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Cohen