QCD Contributions to the Froissart bound for the total cross-section

Abstract

We discuss the effect of infrared soft gluons on the asymptotic behaviour of the total cross-section. We use a singular but integrable expression for the strong coupling constant in the infrared limit and relate its behaviour to the satisfaction of the Froissart bound, giving a specific phenomenological example.

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, presented at Hadron structure 07, HS07, Modra-Harmonia, September 3-7, 2007