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ON COMPLEX ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN MANY-CHANNEL POTENTIAL-SCATTERING PROBLEMS. PART II

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4700263
It is shown that for many-channel, arbitrary spin, potential-scattering problems, the previously defined continuation of the S matrix to nonphysical values of total angular momentum is such that a generalized SommerfeldWatson transformation on the partial-wave expansions of the scatiering amplitudes can be made. An important symmetry of the partial-wave amplitudes is obtained, thus permitting an analogue of Mandelstam's modification of the Sommerfeld-Watson transform. It is shown that a pole of the S matrix at J = alpha is associated with a contribution to the scattering amplitude that behaves like z/sup alpha / for large values of z = cos theta , t being the scattering angle, and that such contributions dominate over the remaining integral terms. Exchange potentials and the generalization of J-parity are discussed, and some results on the positions of poles of the S matrix are derived. (auth)
Research Organization:
California Univ., Berkeley. Lawrence Radiation Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
NSA Number:
NSA-17-011501
OSTI ID:
4700263
Report Number(s):
UCRL-10209
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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