Novel approach to pion and eta production in proton-proton collisions near threshold

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Bernard, V
Kaiser, N
Meissner, UG
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[1] Univ Strasbourg 1, Lab Phys Theor 3 5, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
[2] Tech Univ Munich, Phys Dept T39, D-85747 Garching, Germany
[3] Forschungszentrum Julich, Inst Kernphys Theorie, D-52425 Julich, Germany
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10.1007/s100500050229
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
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070202 ;
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We evaluate the threshold matrix-element for the reaction pp --> pp pi(0) in a fully relativistic Feynman diagrammatic approach. We employ a simple effective range approximation to take care of the S-wave pp final-state interaction. The experimental value for the threshold amplitude A = (2.7 - i0.3) fm(4) can be reproduced by contributions from tree level chiral (long-range) pion exchange and short-range effects related to vector meson exchanges, with w-exchange giving the largest individual contribution. Pion loop effects appear to be small. We stress that the commonly used heavy baryon formalism is not applicable in the NN-system above the pion production threshold due to the large external momentum, \p\similar or equal to root Mm( pi) with M and m(pi) the nucleon and the pion mass, respectively. We furthermore investigate the reaction pp --> pn pi(+) near threshold within the same approach. We extract from the data the triplet threshold amplitude as B = (2.8 - i 1.5) fm(4). Its real part can be well understood from (relativistic) tree level meson-exchange diagrams. In addition, we investigate the process pp --> pp eta near threshold. We use a simple factorization ansatz for the pp eta final-state interaction and extract from the data the modulus of the threshold amplitude, \C\ = 1.32 fm(4). With g(eta)N = 5.3, this value can be reproduced by (relativistic) tree level meson-exchange diagrams and eta-rescattering, whose strength is fixed by the eta N scattering length. We also comment on the recent near threshold data for eta'-production.
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