New Insights on Low Energy πN\pi N Scattering Amplitudes

Dec 26, 2017
18 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 78 (2018) 7, 543
  • Published: Jul 3, 2018
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Abstract: (Springer)
The S- and P- wave phase shifts of low-energy pion-nucleon scatterings are analysed using Peking University representation, in which they are decomposed into various terms contributing either from poles or branch cuts. We estimate the left-hand cut contributions with the help of tree-level perturbative amplitudes derived in relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory up to O(p2)\mathcal {O}(p^2) . It is found that in S11S_{11} and P11P_{11} channels, contributions from known resonances and cuts are far from enough to saturate experimental phase shift data – strongly indicating contributions from low lying poles undiscovered before, and we fully explore possible physics behind. On the other side, no serious disagreements are observed in the other channels.
Note:
  • slightly chnaged version, a few more figures added. Physical conclusions unchanged
  • pi nucleon: scattering
  • perturbation theory: chiral
  • baryon: chiral
  • energy: low
  • pole
  • phase shift
  • partial wave analysis
  • pi nucleon: scattering amplitude
  • tree approximation