Published April 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Differential cross section and analyzing power of the p-vectorp→ppπ0 reaction at a beam energy of 390 MeV

  • 1. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich (Germany)
  • 2. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581 (Japan)
  • 4. High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, 0186 Tbilisi (Georgia)
  • 5. Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)
  • 6. Physics Division, Fukui Medical University, Fukui 910-1193 (Japan)
  • 7. Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center, Fukui 914-0192 (Japan)
  • 8. Physics and Astronomy Department, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (United Kingdom)

Description

The differential cross section and analyzing power Ay of the p-vectorp→ppπ0 reaction have been measured at RCNP in coplanar geometry at a beam energy of 390 MeV and the dependence on both the pion emission angle and the relative momentum of the final protons has been extracted. The angular variation of Ay for the large values of the relative momentum studied here shows that this is primarily an effect of the interference of pion s and p waves and this interference can also explain the momentum dependence. Within the framework of a very simple model, these results would suggest that the pion-production operator has a significant long-range component

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 044004-044004.11
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2008 The American Physical Society