Extraction of resonances from meson-nucleon reactions.
We present a pedagogical study of the commonly employed speed-plot (SP) and time-delay (TD) methods for extracting the resonance parameters from the data of two-particle coupled-channels reactions. Within several exactly solvable models, it is found that these two methods find poles on different Riemann sheets and are not always valid. We then develop an analytic continuation method for extracting nucleon resonances within a dynamical coupled-channel formulation of {pi}N and {pi}N reactions. The main focus of this paper is on resolving the complications from the coupling with the unstable {pi}{Delta}, {pi}N, and {sigma}N channels, which decay into {pi}{pi}N states. By using the results from the considered exactly solvable models, explicit numerical procedures are presented and verified. As a first application of the developed analytic continuation method, we present the nucleon resonances in some partial waves extracted within a recently developed coupled-channels model of {pi}N reactions. The results from this realistic {pi}N model, which includes {pi}N, {pi}N, {pi}{Delta}, {pi}N, and {sigma}N channels, also show that the simple pole parametrization of the resonant propagator using the poles extracted from SP and TD methods works poorly.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 985111
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/PHY/JA-62114; ISSN 1089-490X; TRN: US1006075
- Journal Information:
- Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 79, Issue Feb. 2009; ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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