Pion photoproduction in a gauge-invariant chiral unitary framework

2014

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Abstract: (WSP)
We investigate pion photoproduction off the proton in a manifestly gauge-invariant chiral unitary extension of chiral perturbation theory. In a first step, we consider meson-baryon scattering taking into account all next-to-leading order contact interactions. The resulting low-energy constants are determined by a fit to s-wave pion-nucleon scattering and the low-energy data for the reaction π-p → ηn. Having determined the low-energy constants, we then analyse the data on the s-wave multipole amplitudes E0+ of pion and eta photoproduction. These are parameter-free predictions, as the two new low-energy constants are determined by the neutron and proton magnetic moments.
  • 12.39.Fe
  • 13.75.Gx
  • 13.75.Jz
  • 14.20.Jn
  • Meson photoproduction
  • chiral unitary approach
  • meson-baryon scattering
  • pi: photoproduction
  • chiral
  • unitarity