Unified Scheme for Describing Time Delay and Time Advance in the Interpolation of Rotational Bands of Resonances

Abstract

In this paper we show how rotational bands of resonances can be described by using trajectories of poles of the scattering amplitude in the complex angular momentum plane: each band of resonances is represented by the evolution of a single pole lying in the first quadrant of the plane. The main result of the paper consists in showing that also the antiresonances (or echoes) can be described by trajectories of the scattering amplitude poles, instead of using the hard-sphere potential scattering as prescribed by the classical Breit-Wigner theory. The antiresonance poles lie in the fourth quadrant of the complex angular momentum plane, and are associated with non-local potentials which take into account the exchange forces; it derives a clear-cut separation between resonance and antiresonance poles. The evolution of these latter poles describes the passage from quantum to semi-classical physics. The theory is tested on the rotational band produced by $α$-$α$ elastic scattering and on the hadronic rotational bands in $π^+$-p elastic scattering.