Timelike gamma* N -> Delta form factors and Delta Dalitz decay

May, 2012
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 85 (2012) 113014
e-Print:

Citations per year

201220152018202120240246810
Abstract: (arXiv)
We extend a covariant model, tested before in the spacelike region for the physical and lattice QCD regimes, to a calculation of the gamma* N -> Delta reaction in the timelike region, where the square of the transfered momentum, q^2, is positive (q^2>0). We estimate the Dalitz decay Delta -> Ne+e- and the Delta distribution mass distribution function. The results presented here can be used to simulate the NN -> NNe+e- reactions at moderate beam kinetic energies.
Note:
  • 14 pages, 11 figures
  • 14.20.Gk
  • 12.39.Ki
  • 13.40.Gp
  • 13.40.Hq
  • Delta: form factor
  • lattice field theory
  • covariance
  • photon nucleon: interaction
  • Delta: photoproduction
  • form factor: transition