The Inverse Problem: Extracting Time-Like from Space-Like Data
R. Baldini, Enrico Pasqualucci, S. Dubnička, P. Gauzzi, S. Pacetti, Y. Srivastava · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2001
A practical strategy is presented and successfully implemented to determine form factors in the time-like but unphysical (below threshold) region using dispersion relations, in a model independent way without any bias towards expected resonances. Space and time-like data have been employed along with a regularization scheme to unfold and solve the integral equations. Remarkably, resonance structures with peaks for the $ρ(770)$, $ρ'(1600)$ and a structure near the $N\bar N$ threshold are automatically generated. The $Φ$ peak is invisible thus refuting suggestions about any sizeable $s\bar s$ content in the nucleon.