Fixed t subtracted dispersion relations for Compton Scattering off the nucleon

Apr, 1999
43 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 61 (1999) 015204
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Report number:
  • MKPH-T-99-09

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Abstract:
We present fixed-tt subtracted dispersion relations for Compton scattering off the nucleon at energies EγE_\gamma \leq 500 MeV, as a formalism to extract the nucleon polarizabilities with a minimum of model dependence. The subtracted dispersion integrals are mainly saturated by πN\pi N intermediate states in the ss-channel γNπNγN\gamma N \to \pi N \to \gamma N and ππ\pi \pi intermediate states in the tt-channel γγππNNˉ\gamma \gamma \to \pi \pi \to N \bar N. For the subprocess γγππ\gamma \gamma \to \pi \pi, we construct a unitarized amplitude and find a good description of the available data. We show results for Compton scattering using the subtracted dispersion relations and display the sensitivity on the scalar polarizability difference αβ\alpha - \beta and the backward spin polarizability γπ\gamma_\pi, which enter directly as fit parameters in the present formalism.
  • photon nucleon: elastic scattering
  • Compton scattering
  • partial wave
  • dispersion relation
  • nucleon: polarizability
  • photon photon: exclusive reaction
  • nucleon: pair production
  • pi: pair production
  • helicity: scattering amplitude
  • tensor meson