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AUTHOR
S. Kamalov
New Insights into the Coupling of $\eta $ and $f_1$ Mesons to the Nucleon
We show that the contact couplings of neutral pseudoscalar and axial mesons to the nucleon are proportional to $\Delta s$, the fraction of nucleon spin carried by the strange quark sea, and thus are strongly suppressed relative to the couplings of charged mesons to the nucleon. On the other side, recent high accuracy data on $\eta $ photoproduction at threshold reveal the need for non--negligibile $\eta NN$ vertices, while fitting $\bar N N$ phase shifts by means of effective meson exchange potentials requires a substantial presence of $f_1$ mesons there. We here advocate the idea to attribute the couplings of neutral pseudoscalar and axial vector mesons to effective triangular diagrams con…
Elastic pion scattering on the deuteron in a multiple scattering model
Pion elastic scattering on deuterium is studied in the KMT multiple scattering approach developed in momentum space. Using a Paris wave function and the same methods and approximations as commonly used in pion scattering on heavier nuclei excellent agreement with differential cross section data is obtained for a wide range of pion energies. Only for $T_{\pi}>250$ MeV and very backward angles, discrepancies appear that are reminiscent of disagreements in pion scattering on $^3$He, $^3$H, and $^4$He. At low energies the second order corrections have been included. Polarization observables are studied in detail. While tensor analyzing powers are well reproduced, vector analyzing powers exhibit…
Double Pion Production Reactions
We report on reactions producing two pions induced by real and virtual photons or nucleons. The role of different resonances in these reactions is emphasized. Novel results on coherent 2π photoproduction in nuclei are also reported.
Model Dependence of Nucleon Resonance Parameters
Nucleon resonance parameters as mass, width, branching ratios and electromagnetic helicity amplitudes cannot be determined in a model independent way. The best way to obtain such elementary quantities is in terms of a partial wave analysis and a separation of resonance and background. In this work we have concentrated on the extraction of the e.m. helicity amplitudes A l p and A312 from electric and magnetic multipole analyses that were obtained from different groups with different techniques. We make a comparison of our results for the resonances P11(1440), 013(1520) and s11(1535). The variation that we find can be considered as a measure of the model uncertainty in these quantities.