Simplification of the complete-experiment problem for photoproduction of two pseudoscalar mesons on a nucleon in a truncated partial-wave analysis

Abstract

It is shown that within a truncated partial-wave analysis for photoproduction of two pseudoscalar mesons, it is possible to halve the number of independent partial amplitudes by taking into account parity conservation. In addition, within the framework of the proposed formalism, one can rather easily resolve the double discrete ambiguity arising from the symmetry under complex conjugation of the helicity amplitudes. This leads to essential simplifications of the complete experiment problem, at least, as far as mathematical aspects are concerned.