Pion absorption and rescattering in the ANP model revisited

Abstract

Single pion leptoproduction in the region of the (3,3) resonance is currently of high interest for at least two reasons: (i) These reactions constitute an important part of the total cross section in low energy reactions and are utilized to detect neutrino oscillations in current and future long baseline experiments. (ii) Intranuclear rescattering of the pions in heavy nuclei results in interesting and sizable modifications of the free nucleon cross sections which are testable in electroproduction experiments. In this article we give a basic introduction to the pion multiple scattering model of Adler, Nussinov, and Paschos (ANP) with special emphasis on pion absorption. We also estimate the probability of multiple scattering.