[Submitted on 17 Jan 2025] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Coupled-channel formalism
This article provides a pedagogical exploration of coupled-channel scattering in hadronic physics, focusing on theoretical methodologies, and practical applications. It covers key concepts such as the method, Castillejo-Dalitz-Dyson poles, and the generalization of these techniques to coupled channels. The article also presents a parameterization for partial wave amplitudes, ensuring unitarity and analyticity, and addresses scattering near the threshold of dominant channels, with use also of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. Additionally, it explores final-state interactions, Omnès and Muskhelishvily solutions, the Khuri-Treiman approach, and the two-potential model for resonant event distributions, highlighting the role of Riemann sheets in resonance behavior. These methods are also applicable to related fields like nuclear and atomic physics.
- Comments:
- 28 pages, 6 figures, commissioned article for the Encyclopedia of Particle Physics
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2501.10000 [pdf]