A proton-proton bremsstrahlung experiment has been carried out at TRIUMF using a 280-MeV polarized proton beam impinging on a liquid-hydrogen target. All three outgoing particles were detected: the higher-energy proton in a magnetic spectrometer, the lower-energy proton with plastic scintillators, and the photon in lead-glass Cherenkov detectors. The experiment shows the first unambiguous evidence for off-shell effects in the free nucleon-nucleon interaction, in that the analyzing powers disagree strongly with the predictions of the soft-photon approximation (which incorporates only on-shell information) but are consistent with the results of calculations using the Bonn and Paris potentials.
The radionuclide 22Na is a potential astronomical observable that is expected to be produced in classical novae in quantities that depend on the thermonuclear rate of the 22Na(p,γ)23Mg reaction. We have measured the strengths of low-energy 22Na(p,γ)23Mg resonances directly and absolutely using a radioactive 22Na target. We find the strengths of resonances at Ep=213, 288, 454, and 610 keV to be higher than previous measurements by factors of 2.4-3.2, and we exclude important contributions to the rate from proposed resonances at Ep=198, 209, and 232 keV. The 22Na abundances expected in the ejecta of classical novae are reduced by a factor of ≈2.
We have performed the first direct measurement of the ^{38}K(p,γ)^{39}Ca reaction using a beam of radioactive ^{38}K. A proposed ℓ=0 resonance in the ^{38}K+p system has been identified at 679(2) keV with an associated strength of 120_{-30}^{+50} meV. Upper limits of 1.16 (3.5) and 8.6 (26) meV at the 68% (95%) confidence level were also established for two further expected ℓ=0 resonances at 386 and 515 keV, respectively. The present results have reduced uncertainties in the ^{38}K(p,γ)^{39}Ca reaction rate at temperatures of 0.4 GK by more than 2 orders of magnitude and indicate that Ar and Ca may be ejected in observable quantities by oxygen-neon novae. However, based on the newly evaluated rate, the ^{38}K(p,γ)^{39}Ca path is unlikely to be responsible for the production of Ar and Ca in significantly enhanced quantities relative to solar abundances.
Differential Cross Section of the pn ! pp͑ ͑ ͑ 1 S 0 ͒ ͒ ͒p 2 Reaction Extracted from pd ! pppp 2The double differential cross section for pn ! pp͑ 1 S 0 ͒p 2 at three beam energies has been extracted from the quasifree process pd ! pppp 2 . A comparison is carried out with single differential cross section measurements for 3 He͑p 2 , pn͒n, where the pion is thought to be absorbed onto a pp͑ 1 S 0 ͒ "diproton" state. A significant difference is observed in the shape of the angular distribution between the production and absorption data. This difference is ascribed to the effects of the 3 He nuclear environment characterizing the absorption process; however, an adequate theoretical explanation is not available. [S0031-9007 (98)06103-1]
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