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π0 photoproduction above 800 MeV

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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This paper discusses π0 photoproduction above 800 MeV laboratory photon energy in terms of a vector-meson exchange and isobar model. Experimental data are shown to determine the ratios of magnetic to electric transition amplitudes to the second and third π-

isobars, and a tentative fit to cross-sections is exhibited. Vector-meson exchange is shown to be essential to the description of the recoil nucleon polarization and the higher-energy cross-sections. Finally, two polarization experiments are suggested which may contribute information about the third π-

isobar parity, and about the ω-exchange amplitude sign.

Riassunto

In questo articolo si discute la fotoproduzione di π0 al di sopra di 800 MeV di energia del fotone nel sistema di laboratorio in base allo scambio del mesone vettoriale e del modello isobarico. Si dimostra che i dati sperimentali determinano i rapporti fra le ampiezze delle transizioni magnetiche e quelle elettriche fino a quelle del secondo e terzo isobaro π-

, e si presenta un’approssimazione di tentativo della sezione d’urto. Si dimostra che lo scambio di mesoni vettoriali è essenziale nella descrizione della polarizzazione del nucleone di rinculo e delle sezioni d’urto a energie maggiori. Infine si suggeriscono due esperimenti di polarizzazione che possono fornire informazioni sulla parità del terzo isobaro π-ω, e sul segno dell’ampiezza dello scambio di ω.

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Work supported in part by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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Beder, D.S. π0 photoproduction above 800 MeV. Nuovo Cim 33, 94–109 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02734066

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