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Title: Measurement of the doubly-polarized He 3 ( γ , n ) p p reaction at 16.5 MeV and its implications for the GDH sum rule

Abstract

We report new measurements of the double-polarized photodisintegration of 3He at an incident photon energy of 16.5 MeV, carried out at the High Intensity γ-ray Source (HIγS) facility located at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The spin-dependent double-differential cross sections and the contribution from the three-body channel to the Gerasimov–Drell–Hearn (GDH) integrand were extracted and compared with the state-of-the-art three-body calculations. The calculations, which include the Coulomb interaction and are in good agreement with the results of previous measurements at 12.8 and 14.7 MeV, deviate from the new cross section results at 16.5 MeV. The GDH integrand was found to be about one standard deviation larger than the maximum value predicted by the theories.

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Research Org.:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1223329
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1241895; OSTI ID: 1595344
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-03ER41231; FG02-03ER41033; FG02-03ER41041; DEC-2013/10/M/ST2/00420
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physics Letters. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Journal Volume: 750 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; GDH sum rule; polarized 3He; photoabsorption; polarization observables

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Laskaris, G., Yan, X., Mueller, J. M., Zimmerman, W. R., Xiong, W., Ahmed, M. W., Averett, T., Chu, P. -H., Deltuva, A., Flower, C., Fonseca, A. C., Gao, H., Golak, J., Heideman, J. N., Karwowski, H. J., Meziane, M., Sauer, P. U., Skibiński, R., Strakovsky, I. I., Weller, H. R., Witała, H., and Wu, Y. K. Measurement of the doubly-polarized He 3 → ( γ → , n ) p p reaction at 16.5 MeV and its implications for the GDH sum rule. Netherlands: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.065.
Laskaris, G., Yan, X., Mueller, J. M., Zimmerman, W. R., Xiong, W., Ahmed, M. W., Averett, T., Chu, P. -H., Deltuva, A., Flower, C., Fonseca, A. C., Gao, H., Golak, J., Heideman, J. N., Karwowski, H. J., Meziane, M., Sauer, P. U., Skibiński, R., Strakovsky, I. I., Weller, H. R., Witała, H., & Wu, Y. K. Measurement of the doubly-polarized He 3 → ( γ → , n ) p p reaction at 16.5 MeV and its implications for the GDH sum rule. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.065
Laskaris, G., Yan, X., Mueller, J. M., Zimmerman, W. R., Xiong, W., Ahmed, M. W., Averett, T., Chu, P. -H., Deltuva, A., Flower, C., Fonseca, A. C., Gao, H., Golak, J., Heideman, J. N., Karwowski, H. J., Meziane, M., Sauer, P. U., Skibiński, R., Strakovsky, I. I., Weller, H. R., Witała, H., and Wu, Y. K. Thu . "Measurement of the doubly-polarized He 3 → ( γ → , n ) p p reaction at 16.5 MeV and its implications for the GDH sum rule". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.065.
@article{osti_1223329,
title = {Measurement of the doubly-polarized He 3 → ( γ → , n ) p p reaction at 16.5 MeV and its implications for the GDH sum rule},
author = {Laskaris, G. and Yan, X. and Mueller, J. M. and Zimmerman, W. R. and Xiong, W. and Ahmed, M. W. and Averett, T. and Chu, P. -H. and Deltuva, A. and Flower, C. and Fonseca, A. C. and Gao, H. and Golak, J. and Heideman, J. N. and Karwowski, H. J. and Meziane, M. and Sauer, P. U. and Skibiński, R. and Strakovsky, I. I. and Weller, H. R. and Witała, H. and Wu, Y. K.},
abstractNote = {We report new measurements of the double-polarized photodisintegration of 3He at an incident photon energy of 16.5 MeV, carried out at the High Intensity γ-ray Source (HIγS) facility located at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The spin-dependent double-differential cross sections and the contribution from the three-body channel to the Gerasimov–Drell–Hearn (GDH) integrand were extracted and compared with the state-of-the-art three-body calculations. The calculations, which include the Coulomb interaction and are in good agreement with the results of previous measurements at 12.8 and 14.7 MeV, deviate from the new cross section results at 16.5 MeV. The GDH integrand was found to be about one standard deviation larger than the maximum value predicted by the theories.},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.065},
journal = {Physics Letters. B},
number = C,
volume = 750,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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