Abstract
A simple estimate of the high-energy limit of the pion-nucleon total cross section is given in terms of the mass and the width of the 33 resonance and the $S$-wave pion-nucleon scattering lengths. The underlying assumptions are that the forward elastic (charge-nonexchange) scattering amplitude satisfies the usual (once-subtracted) dispersion relation, and that the scattering becomes dominantly absorptive in the high-energy region. This estimate gives 23 mb as the limit of the total cross section, which is in close agreement with what one obtains from a simple extrapolation of the available high-energy cross sections. The present analysis strongly suggests that a simple correlation exists between a pronounced low-energy resonance and the high-energy limit of the scattering amplitude.
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