Summary
We argue that the expansions involved in the PCAC approach to the description of the π0 photoproduction on proton at threshold have a very slow 0210 0106 V 3 convergence and therefore no reliable prediction can be obtained from them.
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Alvarado, J.J., Lucio M., J.L. The role of chiral symmetry in γp→pπ0 . Nuov Cim A 106, 267–269 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02800070
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