Pion Photo- and Electroproduction and the Partially Conserved Axial Current
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· Physical Review Letters
The relevance of the axial current for pion production processes off the nucleon with real or virtual photons is revisited. Employing the hypothesis of a partially conserved axial current (PCAC), it is shown that, when all of the relevant contributions are taken into account, PCAC does not provide any additional constraint for threshold production processes that goes beyond the Goldberger-Treiman relation. In particular, it is shown that pion electroproduction processes at threshold cannot be used to extract any information regarding the weak axial form factor. The relationships found in previous investigations are seen to be an accident of the approximations usually made in this context.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
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- 40205875
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 85; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- The American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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