Published June 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Meson exchange currents in kaon scattering on the lightest nuclei

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) (Spain)

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The K+ scattering on the lightest nuclei, d, 3He, and 4He is studied in the framework of multiple-scattering theory. Effects from meson exchange currents (MEC) tied to the K+N→KNπ reaction are evaluated. We found that at momentum transfers Q2<0.5 (GeV/c)2 contributions from MEC are much smaller than kaon rescattering corrections. This makes the conventional multiple-scattering picture a reliable tool to study these reactions in this kinematical domain and to extract the K+n scattering amplitude from the K+d data. At larger transferred momentum MEC can become more relevant. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
55
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 2985-2990.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN