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The expressions for total scattering cross sections obtained from the quark model are expressed in a simple form which shows the dependence of the results on the assumptions. The results are shown to depend only on the value of six constants or “charges” defined for each hadron and to be otherwise independent of the structure. Any model which gives the same values of these charges gives the same result as the quark model. In particular, the results for processes which have odd signature t-channel quantum numbers hold in a quark model even with arbitrary mixtures of additional quarkantiquark pairs in the hadron wave function, provided that B, Y, and I are conserved.
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The author would like to thank J.Daboul for calling the relations (1) of this paper to his attention and for many interesting discussions. Valuable discussions with Y.Ne'eman and H.Rubinstein are also gratefully acknowledged.
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Lipkin, H.J. Some implications of the quark model for high energy scattering. Z. Physik 202, 414–424 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01331225
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01331225