Download or read book Two-photon Process and Anomalous Electron-pair Production in [pi]p Collisions written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-photon mechanism for lepton-pair production is calculated in a nonconventional way by treating the relative pion-nucleon motion in the classical limit. The results are compared with existing data for anomalous ee/sup /minus// pairs produced in the collision of 16 GeV/c pions with protons. The results for differential cross sections as a function of the invariant pair mass, Feynman x, and transverse momentum are found to be in reasonable agreement with the data. The dominant piece of the cross section arises from the magnetic, spin-flip part of the nucleon current. 14 refs., 4 figs.