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Pseudoscalar meson photoproduction: from known to undiscovered resonances

Bijan Saghai, Frank Tabakin

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9606042

Abstract

The role of dynamics in spin observables for pseudoscalar meson photoproduction is investigated using a density matrix approach in a multipole truncated framework. Extraction of novel rules for γp → π+ n,~ K+ Λ and ηp reactions based on resonance dominance, and on other broad and reasonable dynamical assumptions, are discussed. Observables that are particularly sensitive to missing nucleonic resonances predicted by quark-based approaches, are singled out.

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