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Neutral pion photoproduction on nuclei in baryon chiral perturbation theory

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C
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  1. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)

Threshold neutral pion photoproduction on light nuclei is studied in the framework of baryon chiral perturbation theory. We obtain a general formula for the electric dipole amplitude in the special case of neutral pion photoproduction on a nucleus. To third order in small momenta, the amplitude is a sum of 2- and 3-body interactions with no undetermined parameters. With reasonable input from the single nucleon sector, our result for neutral pion photoproduction on the deuteron is in agreement with experiment.

OSTI ID:
132930
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 52; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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