Destructive interference of s and p waves in 180-degrees pi- p elastic scattering.

Janousch, M. ; Badertscher, A. ; Goudsmit, P.F.A. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 414 (1997) 237-241, 1997.
Inspire Record 444911 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.43090

The differential cross section for π − p elastic scattering shows a pronounced dip at 180° and incident pion laboratory energies around 57 MeV. This is due to the cancellation of the real parts of the s - and p -wave hadronic scattering amplitudes. The first observation of this dip is reported and the potential of exploiting the destructive interference phenomenon is discussed.

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