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Three-body helicity formalism applied to pion-deuteron scattering

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6916693· OSTI ID:6916693
Wick's three-body helicity formalism is applied 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. All the pion-nucleon S and P-wave channels and the two nucleon-nucleon S-wave channels are used as input to give a good description of the data for pion kinetic energies in the region from 142 MeV upt o 512 MeV.
Research Organization:
Texas A and M Univ., College Station (USA). Dept. of Physics
DOE Contract Number:
AS05-76ER05223
OSTI ID:
6916693
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/05223-31
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English