Coherent and Incoherent Elastic Photoproduction of π0 Meson on Light Nuclei

Abstract

The paper presents calculations of the cross sections of the elastic photoproduction for π⁰ meson on ⁶Li, ⁷Li and ⁹Be nuclei in terms of the impulse approximation using the intermediate coupling p-shell model. Measurements are performed in the excitation energy region of Δ(1232)3/2⁺ resonance. The algorithm of the cross section selection is proposed for γ⁷Li → π⁰⁷Li reaction. These calculation results are in good agreement with the experimental data on the elastic photoproduction cross sections for π0 meson on ⁷Li nucleus obtained by other authors [2].