Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-01-24
Phys. Rev. D 85, 076001 (2012)
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages, 5 figures; v2: introduction rewritten and expanded, matches the published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.076001
We show that colliding vortex beams instead of (approximate) plane waves can lead to a direct measurement of how the overall phase of the plane wave scattering amplitude changes with the scattering angle. Since vortex beams are coherent superpositions of plane waves with different momenta, their scattering amplitude receives contributions from plane wave amplitudes with distinct kinematics. These contributions interfere, leading to the measurement of their phase difference. Although interference exists for any generic wave packet collision, we show that using vortex beams dramatically enhances sensitivity to the phase in comparison with non-vortex beams. Since the overall phase is inaccessible in a plane wave collision, this measurement would be of great importance for a number of topics in hadronic physics, for example, meson production in the resonance region, physics of nucleon resonances, and small angle elastic hadron scattering.
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