Electromagnetic production of hypernuclei

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.02.003zbMATH Open1221.81196arXiv1102.2699OpenAlexW2098048610MaRDI QIDQ635020FDOQ635020

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 19 August 2011

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A formalism for the electromagnetic production of hypernuclei is developed where the cross section is written as a contraction between a leptonic tensor and a hadronic tensor. The hadronic tensor is written in a model-independent way by expanding it in terms of a set of five nuclear structure functions. These structure functions are calculated by assuming that the virtual photon interacts with only one bound nucleon. We use the most recent model for the elementary current operator which gives a good description of the experimental data for the corresponding elementary process. The bound state wave functions for the bound nucleon and hyperon are calculated within a relativistic mean-field model. We calculate the unpolarized triple differential cross section for the hypernuclear production process e + 12C --> e + K+ + 12_Lambda{B} as a function of the kaon scattering angle. The nuclear structure functions are calculated within a particle-hole model. The cross section displays a characteristic form of being large for small values of the kaon scattering angle with a smooth fall-off to zero with increasing angle. The shape of the cross section is essentially determined by the nuclear structure functions. In addition, it is found that for the unpolarized triple differential cross section one structure function is negligible over the entire range of the kaon scattering angle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2699

Recommendations

• Spectroscopy of electro- and photo-productions of hypernuclei
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1749176
• \((\pi^{+}, K^{+)}\) reaction spectroscopy of heavy hypernuclei
• Experimental progress in hypernuclear physics
• \(S=-1\) hypernuclear structure

zbMATH Keywords

structure functionshypernuclearrelativistic mean field modelsstrangeness production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Cited In (6)

• Acceleration induced neutron emission in heavy nuclei
• Invariant amplitudes for electromagnetic Pion production from the nucleon and its implication for separated structure functions
• Nuclear γ-ray superradiance
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• \((\pi^{+}, K^{+)}\) reaction spectroscopy of heavy hypernuclei
• Spectroscopy of electro- and photo-productions of hypernuclei

This page was built for publication: Electromagnetic production of hypernuclei

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q635020)