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Analysis of the charge exchange reaction K++p → K0 + n

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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A detailed analysis of the data concerning the reaction K+ + p → K0 + n has been undertaken in order to deduce the behaviour with energy of the total cross-section and the angular distribution of the differential cross-section. It is found that the best fit for the data, corrected for all effects in nuclei, indicate that the total charge-exchange cross-section increases with about the third power of the c.m. momentum. An analysis of the secondary prongs of the K-nucleus events leading to charge-exchange gives indications that the differential cross-section is peaked backward in the c.m. system. These data do not seem to fit with the theoretical formulae based on a KKπ-interaction. Further, different theoretical interpretations are discussed with the aim of seeing if they are adequate to explain the preceding behaviour of the charge-exchange reaction.

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Un’analisi dettagliata dei dati rigurdanti la reazione di scambio carica K++n → K0+p è stata fatta con lo scopo di ottenere qualche indicazione sull’andamento con l’energia della sezione d’urto totale e sulla distribuzione angolare della sezione d’urto differenziale. È stato trovato che i dati attualmente a disposizione, corretti per tutti gli effetti nel nucleo, indicano che la sezione d’urto totale cresce approssimativamente con la terza potenza dell’impulso nel centro di massa. Un’analisi dai rami secondari degli eventi K-nucleo fornisce anche un’indicazione che, nell’evento studiato, sono preferiti piuttosto i grandi angoli. Questi risultati sembrano in disaccordo con le formule teoriche basate sull’interazione KKπ. Alla fine sono state discusse ulteriori interpretazioni teoriche con lo scopo di cercare di spiegare gli andamenti sperimentali delle sezioni d’urto di scambio carica.

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We should therefore conclude that in first approximation this interpretation with a two K interaction does not appear to be worse than most of the other approaches proposed up to now; but this, of course, is far from solving the complicate problem of explaining the general features of the K nucleon interactions.

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Ceolin, C., Dallaporta, N., Guerriero, L. et al. Analysis of the charge exchange reaction K++p → K0 + n. Nuovo Cim 13, 818–838 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02726369

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