Absorptive corrections to the pion-exchange Deck amplitude

Abstract
Consequences of absorbing the pion-exchange amplitude in Deck models are investigated. We make quantitative estimates of the largest corrections to be reasonably expected from an approach to absorption which has been successful in two-body processes. We conclude that the major features of the low-mass enhancement (e.g., spin-parity content, mass, and angular distributions) obtained from the model are not altered by absorption.