Published May 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Reaction 58Ni(π+,pp) at Tπ+=160 MeV

  • 1. Department of Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (USA)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (USA)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (USA)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 (USA)
  • 5. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (USA)

Description

The reaction 58Ni(π+,pp) was studied with good energy resolution for an incident pion energy of 160 MeV. The angular correlation of the outgoing protons was measured for θlab=30 degree, 75 degree, and 130 degree. From these angular correlations the contribution from direct two-nucleon absorption was extracted. A Monte Carlo calculation modeling the absorption process in terms of initial-state scattering of the pion before absorption, two-nucleon absorption, and final-state scattering of the outgoing nucleons is compared to the data. We conclude that within this framework the two-nucleon mechanism can account for less than half of the total absorption cross section in 58Ni. We report results for the low-energy coincidence proton spectra (down to 5 MeV) which suggest that most of these protons come from evaporation. Angular correlation data for the reaction 58Ni(π-,pp) are also presented

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, C
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
5
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
2215-2228
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCA