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Coherent state formulation of pion radiation from nucleon antinucleon annihilation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-08-17 v1

Abstract

We assume that nucleon antinucleon annihilation is a fast process leading to a classical coherent pion pulse. We develop the quantum description of such pion waves based on the method of coherent states. We study the consequences of such a description for averages of charge types and moments of distributions of pion momenta with iso-spin and four-momentum conservation taken into account. We briefly discuss the applicability of our method to annihilation at rest, where we find agreement with experiment, and suggest other avenues for its use.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403374,
  title  = {Coherent state formulation of pion radiation from nucleon antinucleon annihilation},
  author = {R. D. Amado and F. Cannata and J. -P. Dedonder and M. P. Locher and Bin Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403374},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

24 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, PSI-preprint