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Spin observables in pion photoproduction from a unitary and causal effective field theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-17 v2

Abstract

Pion photoproduction is analyzed with the chiral Lagrangian. Partial-wave amplitudes are obtained by an analytic extrapolation of subthreshold reaction amplitudes computed in chiral perturbation theory, where the constraints set by electromagnetic-gauge invariance, causality and unitarity are used to stabilize the extrapolation. The experimental data set is reproduced up to energies s1300\sqrt{s}\simeq 1300 MeV in terms of the parameters relevant at order Q3Q^3. We present and discuss predictions for various spin observables.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5948,
  title  = {Spin observables in pion photoproduction from a unitary and causal effective field theory},
  author = {A. M. Gasparyan and M. F. M. Lutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5948},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, writeup of two talks presented at the NAPP 2010 conference and the Crystal-Ball Collaboration meeting in Dubrovnik, October 2010, revised version - corrected an error in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4