FSI corrections for near threshold meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions
Jun, 1994
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Abstract:
A procedure is proposed which accounts for final state interaction corrections for near threshold meson production in nucleon-nucleon scattering. In analogy with the Watson-Migdal approximation, it is shown that in the limit of extremely strong final state effects, the amplitude factorizes into a primary production amplitude and an elastic scattering amplitude describing a transition. This amplitude determines the energy dependence of the reaction cross section near the reaction threshold almost solely. The approximation proposed satisfies the Fermi-Watson theorem and the coherence formalism. Application of this procedure to meson production in nucleon-nucleon scattering shows that, while corrections due to the meson-nucleon interaction are small for s-wave pion production, they are crucial for reproducing the energy dependence of the production cross section.Note:
- 21pp. LaTeX + 9 figures Report-no: BGU-94/04
- nucleon nucleon: interaction
- interaction: nucleon nucleon
- meson: hadroproduction
- hadroproduction: meson
- pi0
- eta
- threshold
- final-state interaction
- partial wave
- channel cross section: energy dependence
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