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Analysis of resonance production using relativistic Gamow vectors 5 0 0 H. Kaldass∗ 2 r The Arab Academy of Science Technology a M Cairo, Egypt 2 1 v 3 Abstract 2 0 The calculation of an amplitude involving resonance production 3 is presented. This calculation employs for the resonance state a rel- 0 ativistic Gamow vector. It is used for investigating the question of 5 0 compatibility of the relativistic Gamow vectors kinematics, defined by / real 4-velocities and complex mass, with the stable particle kinemat- h t- ics; or in other words, the integration of the Gamow vectors with the p conventional Dirac bra-ket formalism. The calculation demonstrates e a consistent framework comprising stable and Gamow vectors. h : v i X 1 Introduction r a The description of unstable particles with state vectors stems from the point of view that unstable particles are not less fundamental than the stable ones. In fact, unstable particles are listed along the stable ones in the Particle Data Table [1] and attributed values for the mass, the spin and the width (or lifetime). Hence a zero value for the width (or an infinite lifetime) is what distinguishes a stable from an unstable particle. The relativistic Gamow vec- tors provide state vectors for unstable particles through a precise formulation of complex mass representations of the Poincar´e group wit