Lessons to be learned from the coherent photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons

Details Lessons to be learned from the coherent photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons Lessons to be learned from the coherent photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons

1998-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9812061v1

Phys.Rev. C60 (1999) 054606

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

Manuscript is 27 pages long and includes 11 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.60.054606

We study the coherent photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons---particularly of neutral pions---placing special emphasis on the various sources that put into question earlier nonrelativistic-impulse-approximation calculations. These include: final-state interactions, relativistic effects, off-shell ambiguities, and violations to the impulse approximation. We establish that, while distortions play an essential role in the modification of the coherent cross section, the uncertainty in our results due to the various choices of optical-potential models is relatively small (of at most 30%). By far the largest uncertainty emerges from the ambiguity in extending the many on-shell-equivalent representations of the elementary amplitude off the mass shell. Indeed, relativistic impulse-approximation calculations that include the same pionic distortions, the same nuclear-structure model, and two sets of elementary amplitudes that are identical on-shell, lead to variations in the magnitude of the coherent cross section by up to factors of five. Finally, we address qualitatively the assumption of locality implicit in most impulse-approximation treatments, and suggest that the coherent reaction probes---in addition to the nuclear density---the polarization structure of the nucleus.

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