Further comment on pion electroproduction and the axial form factor

Abstract

We show that a recent claim (H.Haberzettl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 3576) that one cannot extract the nucleon weak axial form factor G_A (t) from charged pion threshold electroproduction is incorrect. Thus previous calculations remain valid and threshold charged pion electroproduction experiments can indeed be used to determine G_A (t), and they should certainly be pursued.

Comments: 2 pp, somewhat more detailed than the comment by P. Guichon, hep-ph/0012126