Reply to "Comment on 'Systematics of radial and angular-momentum Regge trajectories of light non-strange qqbar-states' "

TL;DR

This paper defends previous findings on the non-universality of radial and angular-momentum Regge trajectories of light non-strange qqbar-states, addressing critiques about data selection and analysis methods.

Contribution

It reaffirms the original conclusion on Regge trajectory non-universality after considering critiques and data choices.

Findings

Radial Regge trajectories remain non-universal.

Analysis supports original conclusions despite data selection critiques.

Linearity of trajectories is consistent with large-N_c limit assumptions.

Abstract

In his Comment, D. Bugg argues against our usage of the PDG collection of light non-strange states together with the half-width rule to analyze the linearity of radial and angular-moment Regge trajectories in the large-N_c limit. After taking into account his observations on our choice of data, the radial Regge trajectories are again analyzed. We still find that our conclusion on the lack of universality between radial- and angular-momentum Regge trajectories is valid.