Nucleon Structure and High Energy Scattering

Abstract

If the pomeron is generated by a two gluon exchange there is no a priori reason for a drastic suppression of three gluon exchange with negative parity and charge parity. This would lead to an unacceptably large difference between $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ scattering. It is shown that a natural suppression of the $C$=$P$=--1 contribution to high energy scattering is given by a cluster structure of the nucleon.

Comments: 10 pages, epsf.sty and a4wide.sty, 8 eps figs included complete PS-file (with all figs) available at: http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~rueter/