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Title: Microscopic K{sup +}-nucleus optical potential and calculations of differential elastic-scattering cross sections and total reaction cross sections

Journal Article · · Physics of Atomic Nuclei
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Federation)
  2. NRC, Atomic Energy Authority, Department of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (Egypt)

The differential elastic-scattering cross sections and the total reaction cross sections for the interaction of K{sup +} mesons with {sup 12}C and {sup 40}Ca nuclei at beam momenta of 0.635, 0.715, and 0.8 GeV/c are calculated. The microscopic optical potential derived in the high-energy approximation is used in these calculations. It is determined by the amplitude for kaon-nucleon scattering and the density distribution of pointlike nucleons of the target nucleus. In the high-energy approximation, the Klein-Gordon-Fock equation reduces to the form of the Schroedinger equation. It is shown that small distinctions between the reduction methods do not lead to significant changes in differential elastic-scattering cross sections, but the effects of relativization as such are quite large. Good agreement with experimental data on elastic K{sup +}A scattering is attained. The total reaction cross sections can be described upon adding, to the volume potential, a term that takes the form of its derivative and which has a maximum at the periphery, its contribution being fitted to experimental data.

OSTI ID:
21426680
Journal Information:
Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Vol. 73, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063778810080181; Copyright (c) 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-7788
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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