Nonlocal potentials and complex angular momentum theory (Q625727)

When two composite particles collide, the fermionic character of the components emerges and the antisymmetrization of the system generates repulsive exchange-forces followed by echoes due to Pauli's exclusion principle. The notion of echo was introduced in parallel with the notion of resonance by \textit{K. W. McVoy} [Ann. Phys. 43, 91--125 (1965)]. Despite of this parallel, the status of the echoes has remained obscure in terms of the analytic properties in energy of the scattering functions while the pole-resonance conceptual correspondence was successfully achieved by various authors, e.g., \textit{V. de Alfaro} and \textit{T. Regge} [Potential scattering. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Comp. (1965; Zbl 0141.23202)]. In this paper, the authors study singularities of the partial scattering amplitude \(T\) for appropriate classes of nonlocal potentials, both in the complex momentum \(k\)-plane and in the complex angular momentum \(\lambda\)-plane. Their results extend Regge's formalism to the case of nonlocal potentials and provide a framework for analyzing both resonances and echoes in terms of the polar singularities of \(T\) in the upper or lower half plane of \(\lambda\).