Data on the reaction γp→K^{+}Λ from the CLAS experiments are used to derive the leading multipoles, E_{0+}, M_{1-}, E_{1+}, and M_{1+}, from the production threshold to 2180 MeV in 24 slices of the ...invariant mass. The four multipoles are determined without any constraints. The multipoles are fitted using a multichannel L+P model that allows us to search for singularities and to extract the positions of poles on the complex energy plane in an almost model-independent method. The multipoles are also used as additional constraints in an energy-dependent analysis of a large body of pion and photoinduced reactions within the Bonn-Gatchina partial wave analysis. The study confirms the existence of poles due to nucleon resonances with spin parity J^{P}=1/2^{-}, 1/2^{+}, and 3/2^{+} in the region at about 1.9 GeV.
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The isobar model EtaMAID has been updated with new and high precision data for
η
and
η
photoproduction on protons and neutrons from MAMI, ELSA, GRAAL and CLAS. The background is described in a ...recently developed Regge cut model, and for the resonance part the whole list of nucleon resonances has been investigated with 21
N
*
states contributing to
η
photoproduction and 12
N
*
states contributing to
η
photoproduction. A new approach is discussed to avoid double counting in the overlap region of Regge and resonances. A comparison is done among four newly updated partial waves analyses for observables and partial waves. Finally, the possibility of a narrow resonance near
W
=
1900
MeV is discussed, that would be able to explain unexpected energy and angular dependence of observables in
p
(
γ
,
η
)
p
near
η
threshold.
Electromagnetic resonance properties are uniquely defined at the pole and do not depend on the separation of the resonance from background or the decay channel. Photon-nucleon branching ratios are ...nowadays often quoted at the pole, and we generalize the considerations to the case of virtual photons. In this paper, we derive and compare relations for nucleon to baryon transition form factors both for the Breit-Wigner and the pole positions. Using the MAID2007 and SAID SM08 partial wave analyses of pion electroproduction data, we compare the $G_M$, $G_E$, and $G_C$ form factors for the $\Delta(1232)$ resonance excitation at the Breit-Wigner resonance and pole positions up to $Q^2=5$ GeV$^2$. We also explore the $E/M$ and $S/M$ ratios as functions of $Q^2$. Finally, for pole and residue extraction, we apply the Laurent + Pietarinen method.
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The two reactions
γ
p
→
K
+
Λ
and
π
-
p
→
K
0
Λ
are analyzed to determine the leading photoproduction multipoles and the pion-induced partial wave amplitudes in slices of the invariant mass. The ...multipoles and the partial-wave amplitudes are simultaneously fitted in a multichannel Laurent+Pietarinen model (L+P model), which determines the poles in the complex energy plane on the second Riemann sheet close to the physical axes. The results from the L+P fit are compared with the results of an energy-dependent fit based on the Bonn-Gatchina (BnGa) approach. The study confirms the existence of several poles due to nucleon resonances in the region at about 1.9 GeV with quantum numbers
J
P
=
1
/
2
+
,
3
/
2
+
,
1
/
2
-
,
3
/
2
-
,
5
/
2
-
.
The isobar model EtaMAID has been updated with new and high precision data for
η
and
η′
photoproduction on protons and neutrons from MAMI, ELSA, GRAAL and CLAS. The background is described in a ...recently developed Regge-cut model, and for the resonance part the whole list of nucleon resonances has been investigated with 21
N
* states contributing to
η
photoproduction and 12
N
* states contributing to
η′
photoproduction. Finally, the possibility of a narrow resonance near
W
= 1900 MeV is discussed, that would be able to explain unexpected energy and angular dependence of observables in
p
(
γ
,
η′
)
p
near
η
threshold.
Unconstrained partial-wave amplitudes obtained at discrete energies from fits to complete sets of eight independent observables which are required to uniquely reconstruct reaction amplitudes do not ...vary smoothly with energy, and are in principle non-unique. We demonstrate how this behavior can be ascribed to the continuum ambiguity. Starting from the spinless scattering case, we demonstrate how an unknown overall phase depending on energy and angle mixes the structures seen in the associated partial-wave amplitudes making the partial wave decomposition non-unique, and illustrate it on a simple toy model. We then apply these principles to pseudo-scalar meson photoproduction and show that the non-uniqueness effect can be removed through a phase rotation generating “up-to-a-phase” unique set of SE partial wave amplitudes. Extracting pole positions from partial wave amplitudes is the next step. Up to now, there was no reliable way to extract pole parameters from SE partial waves, but a new and simple single-channel method (Laurent + Pietarinen expansion) applicable for continuous and discrete data has been recently developed. It is based on applying the Laurent decomposition of partial wave amplitude, and expanding the non-resonant background into a power series of a conformal-mapping, quickly converging power series obtaining the simplest analytic function with well-defined partial wave analytic properties which fits the input. The generalization of this method to multi- channel case is also developed and presented. Unifying both methods in succession, one constructs a model independent procedure to extract pole parameters directly from experimental data without referring to any theoretical model.