Pion electroproduction from and near threshold
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The differential cross sections for [Formula: see text], n and [Formula: see text], 2n are calculated and compared with some recent data (Caplan and Sealock, manuscript in preparation). The theoretical model in this calculation uses essentially the same approximations as were used by Dressier et al. (1979) for the [Formula: see text] total threshold cross section. The results of this new calculation are in good agreement with the [Formula: see text], n data. However, comparing our results to the [Formula: see text] data at an incident electron energy of 200 MeV and a pion energy of 15 MeV seems to indicate that the [Formula: see text], 2n calculation somewhat overestimates this cross section.