Probing proton halos through pion photoproduction
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
Charged pion photoproduction is proposed as a new method to study halo nuclei. In particular, it is demonstrated that the reaction 17O(gamma,pi^-)17F(1/2+, 0.495 MeV) is well-suited to investigate the well-known proton halo in 17F which is not amenable to radioactive beam experiments. The cross sections are shown to be very sensitive to the halo structure of the loosely bound proton.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9707047,
title = {Probing proton halos through pion photoproduction},
author = {S. Karataglidis and C. Bennhold},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9707047},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTeX document, 8 pages plus 2 postscript figures, replaced with version accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters