Isoscalar off-shell effects in threshold pion production from pd collisions

Abstract

We test the presence of pion-nucleon isoscalar off-shell effects in the $pd\to π^+ t$ reaction around the threshold region. We find that these effects significantly modify the production cross section and that they may provide the missing strength needed to reproduce the data at threshold.

6 pages, REVTeX, twocolumn, including 3 figures (Postscript), uses psfig, updated and extended version