{"paper":{"title":"Hadronic total cross sections, Wilson loop correlators and the QCD spectrum","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Enrico Meggiolaro, Matteo Giordano","submitted_at":"2014-09-25T19:35:41Z","abstract_excerpt":"We show how to obtain rising hadronic total cross sections in QCD, in the framework of the nonperturbative approach to soft high-energy scattering based on Wilson-loop correlators. Total cross sections turn out to be of \"Froissart\"-type, i.e., the leading energy dependence is of the form $\\sigma_{\\rm tot} \\sim B \\log^2 s$, in agreement with experiments. The observed universality of the prefactor $B$ is obtained rather naturally in this framework. In this case, $B$ is entirely determined by the stable spectrum of QCD, and predicted to be $B_{th} = 0.22\\, {\\rm mb}$, in fair agreement with experi"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1409.7376","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}