Published August 14, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Two-body mechanisms in pion photoproduction on the trinucleon

  • 1. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Mainz, 55099 Mainz (Germany)
  • 2. Center of Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052 (United States)

Description

A breakdown of the impulse approximation is studied in pion photoproduction on 3He at high momentum transfers. The usual distorted wave impulse approximation formalism with Faddeev wave functions that works well for small momentum transfers deviates from experimental measurements by up to 2 orders of magnitude for Q2>6 fm-2. It is found that the explicit inclusion of two-body mechanisms, where the photon is absorbed on one nucleon and the pion is emitted from another nucleon, removes most of the disagreement with the data

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1288-1291.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO