Updated analysis of π<i>N</i>elastic scattering data to 2.1 GeV: The baryon spectrum

Abstract

We present the results of energy-dependent and single-energy partial-wave analyses of \ensuremath{\pi}N elastic scattering data with laboratory kinetic energies below 2.1 GeV. Resonance structures have been extracted using Breit-Wigner fits, speed plots, and a complex plane mapping of the associated poles and zeros. This is the first set of resonance parameters from a VPI analysis constrained by fixed-t dispersion relations. We have searched our solutions for structures which may have been missed in our previous analyses, finding candidates in the ${\mathit{S}}_{11}$ and ${\mathit{F}}_{15}$ partial-wave amplitudes. Our results are compared with those found by the Karlsruhe, Carnegie-Mellon--Berkeley, and Kent State groups.