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Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

The two-body photodisintegration of 4He into a proton and a triton has been studied using the CEBAF Large-Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Real photons produced with the Hall-B bremsstrahlung-tagging system in the energy range from 0.35 to 1.55 GeV were incident on a liquid 4He target. This is the first measurement of the photodisintegration of 4He above 0.4 GeV. The differential cross sections for the γ4He→pt reaction were measured as a function of photon-beam energy and proton-scattering angle and are compared with the latest model calculations by J.-M. Laget. At 0.6-1.2 GeV, our data are in good agreement only with the calculations that include three-body mechanisms, thus confirming their importance. These results reinforce the conclusion of our previous study of the three-body breakup of 3He that demonstrated the great importance of three-body mechanisms in the energy region 0.5-0.8 GeV.

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Copyright American Physical Society Publisher final version available at http://prc.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v80/i4/e044603

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Published Citation

R. Nasseripour et al., "Photodisintegration of He4 into p+t," Phys. Rev. C 80.4 (2009) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.80.044603

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.80.044603

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