Ambiguities in partial wave analysis of two spinless meson photoproduction (original) (raw)

Smith, W.A. et al. (2023) Ambiguities in partial wave analysis of two spinless meson photoproduction.Physical Review D, 108(7), 076001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.076001)

Abstract

We describe the formalism to analyze the mathematical ambiguities arising in partial-wave analysis of two spinless mesons produced with a linearly polarized photon beam. We show that partial waves are uniquely defined when all accessible observables are considered, for a wave set which includes S and D waves. The inclusion of higher partial waves does not affect our results, and we conclude that there are no mathematical ambiguities in partial-wave analysis of two mesons produced with a linearly polarized photon beam. We present Monte Carlo simulations to illustrate our results.

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Additional Information: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177, under which Jefferson Science Associates, LLC operates Jefferson Lab and also by the U.S. Department of Energy Grants No. DE-FG02-87ER40365, No. DE-FG02-92ER40735, and No. DE-FG02-87ER40315, by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) Grants No. PID2019–106080 GB-C21, No. PID2020–118758 GB-I00, and No. PID2020–112777 GB-I00, and by the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council under Grants No. ST/P004458/1 and No. ST/V00106X/1. V. M. is a Serra Húnter fellow. M. A. is supported by Generalitat Valenciana under Grant No. CIDEGENT/2020/002. C. F. R. is supported by Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (MEUFP) under Grant No. BG20/00133. The work of M. M. is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Germany’s Excellence Strategy-EXC-2094-390783311. N. H. is supported by Polish research project Grant No. 2018/29/B/ST2/02576 (National Science Center). D. W. is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 12035007 and the NSFC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through the funds provided to the Sino-German Collaborative Research Center TRR110 “Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD” (NSFC Grant No. 12070131001, DFG ProjectID 196253076-TRR 110). This research was supported by the Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP) which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC-2094–390783311. This work contributes to the aims of the U.S. Department of Energy ExoHad Topical Collaboration, Contract No. DE-SC0023598.
Status: Published
Refereed: Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Glazier, Dr Derek
Authors: Smith, W.A., Glazier, D.I., Mathieu, V., Albaladejo, M., Albrecht, M., Baldwin, Z., Fernández-Ramírez, C., Hammoud, N., Mikhasenko, M., Montaña, G., Perry, R.J., Pilloni, A., Shastry, V., Szczepaniak, A.P., and Winney, D.
College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name: Physical Review D
Publisher: American Physical Society
ISSN: 2470-0010
ISSN (Online): 2470-0029
Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2025 American Physical Society
First Published: First published in Physical Review D 108(7):076001
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Deposit and Record Details

ID Code: 362827
Depositing User: Dr Derek Glazier
Datestamp: 25 Aug 2025 11:14
Last Modified: 26 Aug 2025 01:32
Date of acceptance: 3 August 2023
Date of first online publication: 3 October 2023
Date Deposited: 25 August 2025
Data Availability Statement: No