Lithium photodisintegration with linearly polarized photons at astrophysical energies

Abstract

We present here a model-independent theoretical discussion of differential cross-sections in photodisintegration of lithium with unpolarized and linearly polarized photons. In recent years, experimental measurements are being carried out on the photodisintegration of lithium in the reaction channel 7Li(γ, n)6Li to study the angular dependence of cross-section. In this regard, we have studied the spin structure of amplitudes in 7Li(γ, n)6Li by expressing the differential cross-section in terms of Legendre polynomials.