A Regge parametrization proposed in a previous paper is examined extensively for nN scattering and is shown to lead to an overall nice fit to the experimental data. The Regge cuts due to absorption and double-Regge-exchange corrections are included. The proposed parametrization is based on an idea of very strong exchange degeneracy (VSED) with helicityconserving no-compensation mechanism and on the violation of this primordial VSED scheme by the effects of fixed poles at nonsense wrong signature point. In particular it is shown that the relatively small amount of these fixed-pole effects is sufficient to reproduce all the desired features of nN scattering. at University of Massachusetts Medical School on March 16, 2015 http://ptp.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from
Fixed-Pole Effects on Exchange-Degenerate Regge Residues and nN Scattering 935tant. In the present paper, taking into account the orders of magnitudes of various contributions (and also the manipulational convenience), we calculate up to the (R-P) and (R-R) cuts, where P and R represent respectively the Pomeron and relevant Regge (P' and p) exchanges, and (R-R), for example, stands for the Regge cut caused by double Regge exchange. In § 3, the relevant formulas are summarized and the details of the approximations are described. In § 4, the resultant cross sections and polarizations are compared with experiment, and some discussions of the results are presented. *l Throughout the present paper, nN~nN is called the s-channel, whereas nn~NN the tchannel.