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L. Machenil

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arXiv1993

Multinucleon Mechanisms in ($γ$,N) and ($γ$,NN) Reactions

The similarities in the experimental indications for multinucleon mechanisms in $(γ,p)$ and $(e,e'p)$ processes are pointed out. For both types of reactions, the substantial role of two-nucleon emission processes for transitions to high excitation energies in the residual nucleus is stressed. A microscopic model for the calculation of the two-body knockout contributions to the inclusive $(γ,N)$ reaction is presented. It is based on an unfactorized formalism for the calculation of electromagnetically induced two-nucleon emission cross sections. The model is shown to yield a reasonable description of the overall behaviour of the $^{12}$C$(γ,p)$ and $^{12}$C$(γ,n)$ data at high excitation energies in the residual nucleus. In the calculations effects from non-resonant and resonant pion exchange currents are included. Photoabsorption on these currents are predicted to produce the major contributions to the exclusive $^{16}$O$(γ,n_0)^{15}$O process at photonenergies above the pion threshold. Double differential cross sections for photon induced $pp$ and $pn$ emission from $^{16}$O are calculated and compared with the data.

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arXiv1993

Effects of the final-state interaction in ($γ$,pn) and ($γ$,pp) processes

A model is presented to describe electromagnetically induced two-nucleon emission processes in a shell-model picture. Distortions in the outgoing nucleon waves are accounted for by performing a partial-wave expansion in a real mean-field potential. The antisymmetry condition for the A-body wavefunctions is shown to be naturally preserved. The model is used to calculate ($γ$,pn) and ($γ$,pp) cross sections off the target nuclei $^{16}$O and $^{12}$C for photon energies ranging from 50 MeV up to the $\bigtriangleup$(1232) isobar threshold. Effects due to the pionic currents and intermediate $\bigtriangleup$ creation are implemented. The impact of the distortions due to the interaction of the outgoing nucleon waves with the (A-2) core is examined. Hadronic form factors are introduced to regularize the $π$NN vertices and the sensitivity of the cross section to the pion cut-off mass is examined. The relative contribution of the ($γ$,pp) and the ($γ$,pn) channel to the total photoabsorption strength is discussed. Further, the photon energy dependence of the ($γ$,pp)/($γ$,pn) ratio is investigated.

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arXiv1993

Absorption mechanisms in photon induced two-body knockout

Calculations have been performed for the $^{16}$O($γ$,pn) and the $^{16}$O($γ$,pp) reaction in the photon-energy range $E_γ$ = 60-300 MeV. Besides the contribution from the more common photoabsorption on the pionic degrees of freedom, we have investigated the influence of heavier meson exchange ($ρ, σ, ω$) and intermediate $Δ$ creation with $π$ and $ρ$ exchange. Whereas the $π$ meson is found to set the main trends, the $ρ$ meson is found not to be discardable in a theoretical description of the ($γ$,pn) reaction. The incorporation of an energy dependence and a decay width in the $Δ$ propagator is observed to be essential in order to arrive at a more realistic description of ($γ$,NN) reactions at higher photon energies.

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