Date Awarded
1998
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department
Physics
Advisor
Roger D Carlini
Abstract
The differential scattering cross section for the process gd→dp0 was measured, as part of experiment E89-012 at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The experiment was performed in Hall C during the Spring of 1996 as the commissioning experiment for the Hall C cryogenic target. The High Momentum Spectrometer was used to detect the recoil deuteron and no effort was made to detect the p0 or its decay photons. The differential cross section was measured at a number of incident photon energies between 0.8 GeV and 4.0 GeV for the deuteron center-of-mass angles of 90?? and 136??. The data were found to disagree with both the constituent counting rule and reduced nuclear amplitude predictions. These are the first data at large deuteron center-of-mass angles for photon energies larger than 1.6 GeV.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-2cvf-nc71
Rights
© The Author
Recommended Citation
Meekins, David G., "Coherent neutral pion photoproduction on the deuteron" (1998). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. William & Mary. Paper 1539623932.
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-2cvf-nc71
