ADVANCES IN A FIELD-THEORETIC UNDERSTANDING OF PION PRODUCTION IN NUCLEON–NUCLEON COLLISIONS
2007 ◽
Vol 22
(02n03)
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pp. 591-595
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We study the production amplitude for the reaction NN → NNπ up to next-to-leading order in chiral perturbation theory. We show that the irreducible chiral loops at this order exactly cancel those terms that arise from the off-shell parts of the πN rescattering vertex. This cancellation is required for formal consistency of the whole scheme. The net effect of the inclusion of all next-to-leading order loops is to enhance the leading rescattering amplitude by a factor of 4/3 compared to phenomenological studies, bringing its contribution to the cross section for pp → dπ+ close to the experimental value.
2017 ◽
Vol 32
(15)
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pp. 1730011
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2019 ◽
Vol 79
(10)
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2009 ◽
Vol 676
(1-3)
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pp. 63-68
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1999 ◽
Vol 465
(1-4)
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pp. 43-54
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1993 ◽
Vol 319
(1-3)
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pp. 269-275
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