Determination of the Pion-Nucleon Coupling Constant from Photoproduction Angular Distribution
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- 15 January 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 113 (2), 689-694
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.113.689
Abstract
The pion-nucleon coupling constant is determined from the pion photoproduction angular distribution. The method is based upon a certain conjecture concerning the analyticity of the photoproduction amplitude, and does not depend on the validity of any specific theory of photoproduction. It consists of an extrapolation of the angular distribution at any given fixed energy to , where is the pion velocity divided by the velocity of light. The amplitude at this nonphysical angle has a pole, and the pion-nucleon coupling constant is simply related to the residue of the amplitude. The quartic representation of photoproduction angular distributions is used as the functional form of the extrapolating curve. The most important feature of the new method is in the fact that it measures, at least in principle, the pion-nucleon coupling constant at any given fixed energy, while previous determinations in general measure the coupling constant in the low-energy limit, or require assumptions concerning the behavior of the cross section at all energies.
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