We introduce a relativistic model for pion-nucleon scattering which includes an elementary
delta dressed by its decay. Crossing-symmetric single-particle exchange
is augmented by parametrized multiple-scattering interactions, with covariant sideways
form factors in both 3- and 4-field vertices. Causality is enforced by dispersion
relations. Unitary fits to observed on-shell amplitudes are...
We used recent phenomenological form factors to calculate the effect of on-shell
two-pion exchange in nucleon-nucleon scattering below the two-pion production
threshold. As expected, the contributions of partial wave amplitudes are all negligible.
We also noticed that the relativistic spin-operator decomposition of the
scattering amplitude is not unique at certain...