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Even if a ‘complete set’ of experimental observables were measured for the elastic scattering or photo/electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons, ambiguities would remain in the extracted partial-wave and isospin decomposed amplitudes. As these problems are not widely understood, the present work outlines the way model-dependence enters into analyses of data from both hadronic and electromagnetic facilities.
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Workman, R. (1999). Amplitude Analysis. In: Simula, S., Saghai, B., Mukhopadhyay, N.C., Burkert, V.D. (eds) N* Physics and Nonperturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. Few-Body Systems, vol 11. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6800-4_16
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