Measurement of the Doubly-Polarized $\vec{{^3}He}(\vecγ,n)pp$ Reaction at 16.5 MeV and Its Implications for the GDH Sum Rule

G. Laskaris; X. Yan; J. M. Mueller; W. R. Zimmerman; W. Xiong; M. W. Ahmed; T. Averett; P. -H. Chu; A. Deltuva; C. Flower; A. C. Fonseca; H. Gao; J. Golak; J. N. Heideman; H. J. Karwowski; M. Meziane; P. U. Sauer; R. Skibiński; I. I. Strakovsky; H. R. Weller; H. Witała; Y. K. Wu

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Measurement of the Doubly-Polarized $\vec{{^3}He}(\vecγ,n)pp$ Reaction at 16.5 MeV and Its Implications for the GDH Sum Rule

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We report new measurements of the doubly-polarized photodisintegration of $^3$He at an incident photon energy of 16.5 MeV, carried out at the High Intensity $γ$-ray Source (HI$γ$S) facility located at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The spin-dependent double-differential cross sections and the contribution from the three--body channel to the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn (GDH) integrand were extracted and compared with the state-of-the-art three--body calculations. The calculations, which include the Coulomb interaction and are in good agreement with the results of previous measurements at 12.8 and 14.7 MeV, can no longer describe the cross section results at 16.5 MeV. The GDH integrand was found to be about one standard deviation larger than the maximum value predicted by the theories.

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G. Laskaris, X. Yan, J. M. Mueller, W. R. Zimmerman, W. Xiong, M. W. Ahmed, T. Averett, P. -H. Chu, A. Deltuva, C. Flower, A. C. Fonseca, H. Gao, J. Golak, J. N. Heideman, H. J. Karwowski, M. Meziane, P. U. Sauer, R. Skibiński, I. I. Strakovsky, H. R. Weller, H. Witała, Y. K. Wu. 2015-06-01. Measurement of the Doubly-Polarized $\vec{{^3}He}(\vecγ,n)pp$ Reaction at 16.5 MeV and Its Implications for the GDH Sum Rule. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.065

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