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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1614 - 1617 (1998)

Probing Proton Halos through Pion Photoproduction

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S. Karataglidis *
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321

C. Bennhold
Center of Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052

Received 28 July 1997

Charged pion photoproduction is proposed as a new method to study halo nuclei. In particular, it is demonstrated that the reaction 17O(γ,π-)17F(1 / 2+,0.495 MeV) is well suited to investigate the well-known proton halo in 17F which is not amenable to radioactive beam experiments. The cross sections are shown to be very sensitive to the halo structure of the loosely bound proton.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1614
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1614
PACS: 25.20.Lj, 21.10.Gv, 27.20.+n

* Present address: TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2A3.

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