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How adding zero to the complex relation between production and scattering amplitudes found by van Beveren and Rupp gives the expected real relation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-11-26 v1

Abstract

If a hadronic production process is dominated by two body final state interactions, the amplitude AA for the production process can be expanded as a sum of the scattering amplitudes TT for the relevant two body channels. Van Beveren and Rupp have claimed that the unitarity relation ImA=TA{\rm {Im}} A= T^\dag A can be satisfied if the coefficients in this expansion are complex. We demonstrate that the coefficients have to be real if the scattering amplitudes TT satisfy unitarity. Van Beveren and Rupp have merely written real coefficients as a sum of complex numbers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0711.3521,
  title  = {How adding zero to the complex relation between production and scattering amplitudes found by van Beveren and Rupp gives the expected real relation},
  author = {M. R. Pennington and D. J. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3521},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure

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