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Relativity, nuclear polarizability, and screening in sub-Coulomb elastic scattering

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6570443
Elastic scattering of p-shell nuclear projectiles from /sup 208/Pb has been examined for deviations from Rutherford scattering. Four effects can be important: atomic screening, vacuum polarization, nuclear polarizability and a relativistic effect of dynamical origin. The presence of atomic screening, nuclear polarizability and the relativistic effect was observed thus constituting the first measurement of this relativistic effect using complex nuclei and the first measurement of this relativistic effect using complex nuclei and the first measurement of nuclear polarizability in an external Coulomb field.
Research Organization:
Washington Univ., Seattle (USA). Nuclear Physics Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-81ER40048
OSTI ID:
6570443
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40048-11-L2; ON: DE83004933
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English