We show that pion-nucleus total cross sections are sensitive to the assumed off-shell behavior of the pion-nucleon amplitude. Dependence on energy and nucleon number is discussed, as in an energy-dependent effective nuclear radius arising from the p-wave pion-nucleon interaction.
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