Study of s-Channel and t-Channel Helicity Conservation in the Diffractive Part of the Reaction pi+- p --> pi (n pi) at 16-GeV/c

The Aachen-Berlin-Bonn-CERN-Heidelberg collaboration Grässler, H. ; Kirk, H. ; Otter, G. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 95 (1975) 1-11, 1975.
Inspire Record 99495 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.31974

By means of an isospin analysis of the reaction π ± p→ π (N π ) at 16 GeV/ c we have determined the decay angular distributions of the N π system with I= 1 2 produced by isospin zero exchange. Helicity conservation is not observed in the t -channel for the N π mass region below 1.6 GeV, where diffraction dissociation of the proton is supposed to dominate. There are indications for approximate t -channel helicity conservation for N ∗ (1690) production. In the helicity frame, the experimental data are not in agreement with s -channel helicity conservation over the whole N π mass range investigated. Thus the diffractive process N→N π differs both from the process N→N ππ (or π → πππ and K→K ππ ) which approximately conserves t -channel helicity and from the elastic scattering N→N which conserves helicity in the s -channel.

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FIT TO ISOSPIN HALF NUCLEON RESONANCE PRODUCTION WITH ISOSPIN ZERO EXCHANGE.


Spin-Parity Analysis of the Diffractively Produced Low Mass n pi System in the Reaction pi+- p --> pi+- (n pi)+ at 16-GeV/c

The Aachen-Berlin-Bonn-CERN collaboration Otter, G. ; Rudolph, G. ; Wieczorek, H. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 130 (1977) 349, 1977.
Inspire Record 119192 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.35244

The dominant partial waves of the diffractively produced N π system at low Nπ masses (⩽ 1.4 GeV) are determined in the reactions π ± p → π (N π ) at 16 GeV/ c . A satisfactory description of our data can only be obtained by strong contributions of both a 1 2 − S-wave and a 3 2 + P-wave, violating the Gribov-Morrison rule. Spin and parity of the diffractively produced states are found from the interference between diffraction and Δ (1236) production. The interference term is obtained by an isospin analysis.

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<NUCLEON PION> MASS DEPENDENCE.