Axial vector meson production

Recently available differential cross section and density matrix information on π^?p → B^?p at 4 GeV/c are successfully described in terms of t channel exchanges and s channel absorptive effects. The s channel helicity amplitude which is dominant at small |t| (zero net helicity flip ω exchange) is found to have a zero at ?t = 0.2 GeV². SU(3) and higher symmetries are used to predict cross sections for further axial vector meson production processes, in particular non-diffractive A₁ production. The importance of these processes with regard to Regge phenomenology and meson spectroscopy is emphasized.     

Regge pole and cut behaviour at Fermilab energies

Prompted by some unusual features of the np charge-exchange cross sections recently measured at Fermilab, we study this process over the entire energy range in an attempt to clarify its exchange amplitude structure. Comparison with all the other two-body processes so far measured at Fermilab (π^?p → π⁰n, νn, ω⁰n and elastic scattering) allows one to draw useful conclusions concerning the required J-plane structure of Regge cut models. We show that the shrinkage properties and helicity dependence of Regge cuts must be more complicated than current models suggest. We also present evidence that the Williams (or “poor man's absorption”) model for π exchange is incorrect at high energies.     

The quasihole aspect of hole strength distributions in odd potassium and calcium isotopes

The ${}^{\mathrm{40,42,44,48}}\text{Ca}\text{(}\text{d}\text{, ρ)}{}^{\mathrm{39,41,43,47}}\text{K and}{}^{\mathrm{40,44}}\text{Ca(d, t)}{}^{\mathrm{39,43}}$ reactions have been studied at 52 MeV. Angular distributions have been taken and spectroscopic factors have been extracted by means of a DWBA analysis for states with excitation energies up to typically 10 MeV. Analog relations are proposed for mass-39 and mass-43 nuclei. A discussion of proton occupation numbers for various shells above and below the Fermi surface shows a substantial and about equal core excitation for ⁴²Ca and ⁴⁴Ca. Typically 70 % of the $\text{1}\text{d}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>5</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}$ hole strengths have been located. The corresponding energy averaged strength distributions show quasihole structures whose widths are dominated by phonon-hole coupling to the first 2⁺ state in the target nucleus.     

Regge description of nucleon-nucleon polarisation

Recent polarisation data for pp and pn elastic scattering within the momentum range 6 to 45 GeV/c are economically described by a simple Regge model. A crucial feature of the model is the inclusion of a non-factorising pomeron which couples both to helicity flip and to non-flip. This allows an understanding of the observed t-dependent structure and rapid energy dependence of the pp polarisation. Predictions are made for pp and pn polarisation measurements at higher momenta. Fragmentary data on $\text{p}\text{p}$ elastic polarisation are compared to predictions.