Inclusion of Final-State-Interaction Effects at Higher Energies in the Photodisintegration of the α-Particle

Abstract.

Final-state-interaction (FSI) effects are included in the treatment of the photodisintegration of the α-particle via the K-matrix approximation. These are applied to the exact AGS-type integral equation for this process at photon energies 50–100 MeV. Direct comparison with the plane-wave (Born) approximation indicates that these effects are small, which explains the good fit to the data we found previously. The FSI in the integro-differential equation treatment of the problem in configuration space are included by means of effective nucleon-trinucleon potentials constructed via an exact inverse scattering method and by using the phase shifts obtained from the K-matrix approach to the 3 + 1 → 3 + 1 scattering. Comparison between this approach and the integral-equation approach confirms the validity of this model previously employed at low energies using experimental phase shifts. Finally we show that the photonuclear cross sections are sensitive to the details of the boundstate wave functions of the ³He and ⁴He as calculated exactly via the AGS equations and in the integro-differential-equation approach, which for the ⁴He neglects higher-order correlations.