Extracting the resonance parameters from experimental data on scattering of charged particles

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Vaandrager, Paul
Rakityansky, Sergei Anatoljevich

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World Scientific Publishing

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A new parametrization of the multi-channel S S -matrix is used to fit scattering data and then to locate the resonances as its poles. The S S -matrix is written in terms of the corresponding “in” and “out” Jost matrices which are expanded in the Taylor series of the collision energy E E around an appropriately chosen energy E 0 E0 . In order to do this, the Jost matrices are written in a semi-analytic form where all the factors (involving the channel momenta and Sommerfeld parameters) responsible for their “bad behavior” (i.e., responsible for the multi-valuedness of the Jost matrices and for branching of the Riemann surface of the energy) are given explicitly. The remaining unknown factors in the Jost matrices are analytic and single-valued functions of the variable E E and are defined on a simple energy plane. The expansion is done for these analytic functions and the expansion coefficients are used as the fitting parameters. The method is tested on a two-channel model, using a set of artificially generated data points with typical error bars and a typical random noise in the positions of the points.

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Jost matrix, Multi-channel resonances, Resonances, Energy Riemann surface, Coulomb forces

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Vaandrager, P & Rakityansky, SA 2016, 'Extracting the resonance parameters from experimental data on scattering of charged particles', International Journal of Modern Physics E, vol. 25, no. 2, art #1650014.