EFFECTS OF MESON-DECAY DIAGRAMS IN PROTON-PROTON BREMSSTRAHLUNG

We investigate the effect of meson-decay diagrams on the proton-proton bremsstrahlung process. We explicitly include short-range correlations by calculating single- and double-scattering diagrams using an NN T-matrix interaction. We find that in general these diagrams interfere destructively with the corresponding Born amplitudes so that the net effect of the meson-decay process on proton-proton bremsstrahlung reactions is considerably smaller than that of the Born amplitude alone.