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Report number	arXiv:1011.1349 ; CERN-PH-TH-2010-247 ; CERN-PH-TH-2010-247
Title	An upper bound on the total inelastic cross-section as a function of the total cross-section
Author(s)	Wu, Tai Tsun (Harvard U. ; CERN) ; Martin, Andre (CERN) ; Roy, Shasanka Mohan (Tata Inst.) ; Singh, Virendra (Tata Inst.)
Publication	2011
Imprint	08 Nov 2010
Number of pages	4 p, 4
Note	Comments: 4 pages
In:	Phys. Rev. D 84 (2011) 025012
DOI	10.1103/PhysRevD.84.025012
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology ; Astrophysics and Astronomy
Abstract	Recently Andr\'e Martin has proved a rigorous upper bound on the inelastic cross-section $\sigma_{inel}$ at high energy which is one-fourth of the known Froissart-Martin-Lukaszuk upper bound on $\sigma_{tot}$. Here we obtain an upper bound on $\sigma_{inel}$ in terms of $\sigma_{tot}$ and show that the Martin bound on $\sigma_{inel}$ is improved significantly with this added information.
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