Search for the Delta++ component in C-12 ground state using C-12(gamma, pi+ p) reaction

Dec, 2001
31 pages
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  • Nucl.Phys.A 705 (2002) 55-72
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Abstract:
The differential cross section for the 12^{12}C(γ,π+p)(\gamma,\pi^{+}p) reaction has been measured in the Δ\Delta(1232) resonance region at high recoil momenta of the residual nuclear system. The data are analyzed under the assumption that the formation of the π+p\pi^+p pairs may be interpreted as a γΔ++π+p\gamma\Delta^{++}\to\pi^+p process which takes place on a Δ++\Delta^{++} preexisting in the target nucleus. Estimates of the Δ++\Delta^{++} momentum distribution ρΔ++(pˉ)\rho_{\Delta^{++}}(\bar{p})=0.17 fm3^3 for a mean momentum pˉ=300±49\bar{p}=300\pm49 MeV/c as well as the number of Δ\Delta isobars per nucleon NΔ=0.017N_\Delta=0.017 were obtained for 12^{12}C.
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  • 25 pages LaTeX2e, 7 eps figures
  • 25.20.Lj
  • 21.30.+y
  • Nuclear reactions
  • 12 C( γ , pπ + )
  • E =420,500 MeV bremsstrahlung
  • Measured
  • E p
  • pπ -coin.
  • σ ( E , θ )
  • 12 C deduced Δ resonance component