High-energy pion scattering in holographic QCD: A comparison with experimental data

A bstract Following Polchinski and Strassler 1 and our previous work 2, we study high-energy pion scattering in the holographic QCD hard-wall model. In particular, we focus on comparing our predictions for the angular dependence of π + π − → π + π − scattering with experimental data extracted from the process π − p → π + π − n . Having previously shown that our approach reproduces the constituent counting rule found in QCD, we now observe qualitative agreement between our predictions and the extracted data in the high-energy fixed-angle regime. We also provide predictions for all other 2-to-2 pion scattering processes. Our approach can be extended to a broader range of meson and glueball scattering processes in various holographic QCD models.