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Remarks on the phenomenological analysis of resonances

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

Summary

Some remarks are made concerning various aspects of the analysis of resonances produced in multi-particle final states resulting from high-energy collisions. The shape and position of a resonance are discussed by means of the connection between production cross-sections for stable and unstable particles, and a numerical example ofN * as seen in KN → KN * at different energies is given. The relation between the present description of the resonant effects and others (Watson’s finalstate interaction formula and the one-meson-exchange model of Chew and Low) is examined. Off-the-mass-shell corrections to the one-meson-exchange model are obtained in a relatively simple way. The bearing of the decay angular correlations on the production mechanism is explored ; co-ordinate axes appropriate for the peripheral model are specified; the equivalence of the azimuthal angular distribution and the Treiman-Yang distribution is established. Angular correlations are given for the decay of boson resonances (J=l, 2) resulting from definite spin and parity states in thet-channel. Some remarks are made about the inclusion of nonresonant contributions when there is a mixture of pseudoscalar and vector exchange.

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Si fanno alcune osservazioni su vari aspetti dell’analisi delle risonanze prodotte negli stati flnali di molte particelle risultanti da collisioni di alta energia. Si discutono la forma e la posizione di una risonanza per mezzo della connessione fra le sezioni efficaci di produzione per le particelle stabili e quelle instabili, e si dà un esempio numerico dell’N * come si vede in KN→KN * a differenti energie. Si analizza il rapporto fra questa descrizione degli effetti di risonanza ed altre (la formula di Watson per le interazioni dello stato finale e il modello a scambio di un mesone di Chew e Low). Si ottengono in modo relativamente semplice le correzioni fuori lo Strato delle masse al modello a scambio di un mesone. Si analizza l’influenza delle correlazioni angolari del decadimento sul meccanismo di produzione; si definiscono gli assi coordinati appropriati al modello periferico; si afferma l’equivalenza della distribuzione angolare azimutale con la distribuzione di Treiman-Yang. Si danno le correlazioni angolari per il decadimento di risonanze bosoniche (J=l,2) risultanti da stati con spin e parità definite nel canalet. Si fanno alcune osservazioni sull’inclusione di eontributi non risonanti quando si ha una mescolanza di scambio pseudoscalare e vettoriale.

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On sabbatical leave from the University of Illinois, Urbana, for the academic year 1963–64.

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Jackson, J.D. Remarks on the phenomenological analysis of resonances. Nuovo Cim 34, 1644–1666 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02750563

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