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Phys. Rev. 117, 854–858 (1960)

Connection between Neutral Pion Decay and Proton Compton Scattering

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Maurice Jacob* and Jon Mathews
Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Received 20 August 1959; published in the issue dated February 1960

The inclusion of the single-pion intermediate state significantly improves the agreement between theory and experiment for proton Compton scattering. Excitation functions and angular distributions for various assumed values of the π0 lifetime are presented. On this basis one may definitely exclude π0 lifetimes >10-16 sec or <5×10-19 sec.

© 1960 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.117.854
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*On a French "Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique" Fellowship.