Published December 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

Forward elastic amplitudes of high-energy pions and kaons on nuclei

  • 1. Saint Johns and Saint Marys Institute of Technology, Tam-Sui Taipei County, Taiwan 25135, Republic of (China)
  • 2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37235 (United States)

Description

Experimental elastic angular distributions for pions and kaons in the region of laboratory momentum from 600 to 900 MeV/c over the nuclear-Coulomb interference region are analyzed to extract both the real and imaginary part of the forward meson-nucleus scattering amplitude. For pions, results for the total cross sections extracted are smaller than those found from transmission experiments. The real part of the amplitude is found to have an interesting energy dependence. The significance of this result for the behavior of hadrons in nuclei is discussed. For kaons, only qualitative results were obtained due to limited data. copyright 1998 The American Physical Society

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
58
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 3500-3507
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
30021319
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
KAON REACTIONS; PION REACTIONS; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; CROSS SECTIONS; HADRON REACTIONS; MESON REACTIONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS