Total cross sections and cone slope-theory and experiment

The previously presented (1969-1970) description of all the known experimental data on pi N, KN, and NN-NN interactions has shown that there exists a single system of parameters that give good agreement with experiment (without enhanced diagrams). The present article compares the theory, given the same parameters, with the new data of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and CERN on the values sigma /sup tot/ and on the slopes b/sub 0/=b/sub 0/(E) of the pp- scattering cone. (10 refs).