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23. 8. 2016.
Fundamental properties of short-lived subatomic particles
Two distinct sets of properties are used to describe short-lived particles: the pole and the Breit-Wigner parameters. There is an ongoing decades-old debate on which of them is fundamental. All resonances, from excited hydrogen nuclei hit by ultra-high energy gamma rays in deep space, to new particles produced in Large Hadron Collider, should be described by the same fundamental physical quantities. In this study of nucleon resonances we discover an intricate interplay of the parameters from the both sets, and realize that neither set is fundamental on its own.