Detection of the inverse pion electroproduction on 7Li nuclei

The inverse pion electroproduction process on 7Li nucleus, π++7Li→e++e-+X, at the pion kinetic energy of 380 MeV has been detected. The missing mass distribution of the process events is described well assuming that approximately one half of the detected events belongs to the reaction channel producing 7Be nucleus either in the ground state (7Be) or in the excited state (7Be*): π++7Li→e++e-+7Be(7Be*). For this reaction the differential cross section for the electron and positron energies above 70 MeV, for the particles emitted under an angle of about 65 deg in l. s., is d2σ/dΩ2=(1.3+-0.3)x10-32 cm2/sr2