https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01549-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
R-matrix type parametrization of the Jost function for extracting the resonance parameters from scattering data
1
Department of Physics, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa
2
Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
3
Bogolyubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia
Received:
15
December
2024
Accepted:
24
March
2025
Published online:
15
April
2025
A new method is proposed for fitting non-relativistic binary-scattering data and for extracting the parameters of possible quantum resonances in the compound system that is formed during the collision. The method combines the well-known R-matrix approach with the analysis based on the semi-analytic representation of the Jost functions. It is shown that such a combination has the advantages of both these approaches, namely, the number of the fitting parameters remains relatively small (as for the R-matrix approach) and the proper analytic structure of the S-matrix is preserved (as for the Jost function method). It is also shown that the new formalism, although closely related to the R-matrix method, has the benefit of no dependence on an arbitrary channel radius. The efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method are tested using a model single-channel potential. Artificial “experimental” data generated with this potential are fitted, and its known resonances are successfully recovered as zeros of the Jost function on the appropriate sheet of the Riemann surface of the energy.
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