Double Pion Production Reactions

Abstract

We report on reactions producing two pions induced by real and virtual photons or nucleons. The role of different resonances in these reactions is emphasized. Novel results on coherent two pion photoproduction in nuclei are also reported.

Contribution to the conference on N* physics and non-perturbative QCD, Trento, Italy, May 18 - 29, 1998. 9 pages and 7 postscript figures. To be published in Few-Body Systems Suppl