Published May 1, 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Proton-proton bremsstrahlung at 280 MeV

  • 1. University Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 0W0 (Canada)
  • 2. TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A3 (Canada)
  • 3. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J1 (Canada)

Description

A proton-proton bremsstrahlung experiment has been carried out at TRIUMF using a 280-MeV polarized proton beam impinging on a liquid-hydrogen target. All three outgoing particles were detected: the higher-energy proton in a magnetic spectrometer, the lower-energy proton with plastic scintillators, and the photon in lead-glass Cherenkov detectors. The experiment shows the first unambiguous evidence for off-shell effects in the free nucleon-nucleon interaction, in that the analyzing powers disagree strongly with the predictions of the soft-photon approximation (which incorporates only on-shell information) but are consistent with the results of calculations using the Bonn and Paris potentials

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
9
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2689-2704
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA