Coherent Production on Nuclei Does Not Measure Total Cross Sections for Unstable Particles

22 January 1979

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 42 (4) , 204-208
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.42.204

Abstract

We calculate diffractive production in nucleon-nucleus collisions using a parton model. We fit the result by the standard optical-model formula, and obtain estimates of 12-30 mb for the cross section of the diffractively produced system on a nucleon. The actual value of that cross section in the model is 65 mb. Estimates for the total cross section of an unstable hadron which are based on the

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dependence of coherent production should therefore not be trusted.

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