EXTRACTING DYNAMICS FROM COLLISION DATA .1. ANALYSIS OF INTEGRAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM

Collision data in forms currently available from experimental sources are reduced by quadratures and algebraic transformations to dynamical parameters. The reduction hinges on suitable normalizations and utilization of sum rules and removes the influence of experimental geometries. The dynamical parameters, labeled by angular momenta restricted to a modest range, appear more suited to comparison with theory than the original experimental data. Our analytical developments are simplified by certain restrictions, whose removal is discussed in a final section. © 1990 The American Physical Society.