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Forward-angle incoherent photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons off nuclei
Fecha
2012Registro en:
PHYSICAL REVIEW C, v. 86, pp. 884-890, SEP 10, 2012
0556-2813
10.1103/PhysRevC.86.037601
Autor
Rodrigues, Tulio Eduardo
Arruda Neto, Joao Dias de Toledo
Institución
Resumen
The mechanism of forward angle incoherent photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons off nuclei is revisited via the time-dependent multicollisional Monte Carlo (MCMC) intranuclear cascade model. Our results-combined with recent developments to address coherent photoproduction-reproduce with good accuracy recent JLab data of pi(0) photoproduction from carbon and lead at an average photon energy k similar to 5.2 GeV. For the case of. photoproduction, our results for k = 9 GeV suggest that future measurements to extract the eta ->gamma gamma decay width via the Primakoff method should be focused on light nuclei, where the disentanglement between the Coulomb and strong amplitudes is more easily achieved. The prospects to use heavy nuclei data to access the unknown eta N cross section in cold nuclear matter are also presented.