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Phys. Rev. C 56, R1215–R1217 (1997)

Unitarity constraint for threshold coherent pion photoproduction on the deuteron

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P. Wilhelm
Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

Received 17 March 1997; revised 20 June 1997; published in the issue dated September 1997

The contribution of the two-step process γd→pn→π0d to the imaginary part of the amplitude for coherent pion production on the deuteron is calculated at threshold exploiting unitarity constraints. The result shows that this absorptive process is not negligible and has to be considered in an extraction of the elementary neutron production amplitude from the γdπ0d cross section at threshold.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.56.R1215
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.56.R1215
PACS:
21.45.+v, 12.39.Fe, 25.20.Lj