1. Proton elastic scattering at 200 A MeV and high momentum transfers of 1.7–2.7 fm−1 as a probe of the nuclear matter density of 6He
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Yohei Shimizu, Zh Yang, Masaki Sasano, K. Yoneda, Y. Ando, T. Akieda, S. Nakai, Masanori Dozono, T. Tomai, A. Galindo-Uribarri, I. Stefan, Atsumi Saito, H. Sato, M. Yasuda, Kaori Kaki, Kenjiro Miki, A. Ni, Yuya Kubota, Yosuke Kondo, S. Leblond, Didier Beaumel, Kimiko Sekiguchi, N. Chiga, Juzo Zenihiro, A. Watanabe, Tetsuo Noro, Takashi Kobayashi, Satoshi Sakaguchi, L. Stuhl, Shoichiro Kawase, Yohei Matsuda, S. Park, Satoru Terashima, Shuichi Ota, W. Kim, T. Lokotko, V. Panin, T. Mukai, T. Wakui, B. Heffron, Kenichiro Tateishi, Tomotsugu Wakasa, Motonobu Takaki, T. Ozaki, H. Sakai, Yukie Maeda, Tomohiro Uesaka, H. Kon, Yoshiki Wada, Hideaki Otsu, T. Motobayashi, J. Yasuda, E. Milman, S. Chebotaryov, K. Taniue, A. Hirayama, H. Lee, Takashi Nakamura, Tadaaki Isobe, H. Yamada, Yasuhiro Togano, M. Assie, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
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Elastic scattering ,Physics ,Inverse kinematics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,D27 Reactions induced by unstable nuclei ,General Physics and Astronomy ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Impulse (physics) ,Nuclear matter ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Computational physics ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,0103 physical sciences ,medicine ,D11 Models of nuclear structure ,Neutron ,Halo ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Nucleus ,Order of magnitude - Abstract
International audience; Differential cross sections of p–6He elastic scattering were measured in inverse kinematics at an incident energy of 200 A MeV, covering the high momentum transfer region of 1.7–2.7 fm−1. The sensitivity of the elastic scattering at low and high momentum transfers to the density distribution was investigated quantitatively using relativistic impulse approximation calculations. In the high momentum transfer region, where the present data were taken, the differential cross section has an order of magnitude higher sensitivity to the inner part of the 6He density relative to the peripheral part (15:1). This feature makes the obtained data valuable for the deduction of the inner part of the 6He density. The data were compared to a set of calculations assuming different proton and neutron density profiles of 6He. The data are well reproduced by the calculation assuming almost the same profiles of proton and neutron densities around the center of 6He, and a proton profile reproducing the known point-proton radius of 1.94 fm. This finding is consistent with the assumption that the 6He nucleus consists of a rigid α-like core with a two-neutron halo.
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- 2018
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