Three-body helicity formalism applied to pion-deuteron scattering

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Abstract

We apply Wick's three-body helicity formalism, to covariantly reduce the relativistic Faddeev equations that describe pion-deuteron elastic scattering, obtaining a set of equations that satisfy two- and three-body unitarity and are Lorentz invariant with regard to both the space and the spin variables. We use all the pion-nucleon S and P-wave channels and the two nucleon-nucleon S-wave channels as input, to give a good description of the data for pion kinetic energies in the region from 142 MeV up to 512 MeV.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)411-425
Number of pages15
JournalNuclear Physics, Section A
Volume360
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 May 1981
Externally publishedYes

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