Extraction of high-energy particle beams through the yoke of the synchrocyclotron magnet

Forward analysis of πN scattering with an expansion method

“…The data were allowed to float inside the quoted systematic errors and the floating factors were searched simultaneously with the coefficients of Pietarinen's expansions. In the process of the minimization we had to discard six data sets, which were too discrepant even after the renormalization: the π ± p total cross section sets of Devlin et al [33], two π + p total cross section sets of Brisson et al [34,35], the π + p total cross section set of Ignatenko et al [36] and the π + p total cross section set of Lindenbaum et al [37]. In addition to these, we had to discard the three lowest data points of Davidson et al [38].…”