Hard photodisintegration of a proton pair

  • I. Pomerantz
  • , N. Bubis
  • , K. Allada
  • , A. Beck
  • , S. Beck
  • , B. L. Berman
  • , W. Boeglin
  • , A. Camsonne
  • , M. Canan
  • , K. Chirapatpimol
  • , E. Cisbani
  • , F. Cusanno
  • , C. W. de Jager
  • , C. Dutta
  • , F. Garibaldi
  • , O. Geagla
  • , R. Gilman
  • , J. Glister
  • , D. W. Higinbotham*
  • , X. Jiang
  • A. T. Katramatou, E. Khrosinkova, B. W. Lee, J. J. LeRose, R. Lindgren, E. McCullough, D. Meekins, R. Michaels, B. Moffit, G. G. Petratos, E. Piasetzky, X. Qian, Y. Qiang, I. Rodriguez, G. Ron, A. Saha, A. J. Sarty, B. Sawatzky, E. Schulte, R. Shneor, N. Sparveris, R. Subedi, S. Strauch, V. Sulkosky, Y. Wang, B. Wojtsekhowski, X. Yan, H. Yao, X. Zhan, X. Zheng
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a study of high energy photodisintegration of proton-pairs through the γ + 3He → p + p + n channel. Photon energies, Eγ, from 0.8 to 4.7 GeV were used in kinematics corresponding to a proton pair with high relative momentum and a neutron nearly at rest. The s-11 scaling of the cross section, as predicted by the constituent counting rule for two nucleon photodisintegration, was observed for the first time. The onset of the scaling is at a higher energy and the cross section is significantly lower than for deuteron (pn pair) photodisintegration. For Eγ below the scaling region, the scaled cross section was found to present a strong energy-dependent structure not observed in deuteron photodisintegration.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)106-109
Number of pages4
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume684
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Feb 2010

Funding

FundersFunder number
US-Israeli Bi-National Scientific Foundation
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC05-06OR23177
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Israel Science Foundation

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