The Neutron-Neutron ^1S0 Scattering Length via the Reaction π^-d→γ nn
Abstract
A measurement of the ^1S0 neutron-neutron scattering length, a quantity crucial to the discussion of charge symmetry breaking in the NN interaction, has been carried out at TRIUMF by studying the shape of the photon energy spectrum from the reaction π^-d→γ nn in the region near the endpoint. A 40.5 MeV pion beam was degraded and stopped in a liquid deuterium target and all three final state particles from the reaction were detected in triple coincidence. The experimental photon energy spectrum was reconstructed from the measured momenta of the two neutrons, and contains 133,000 counts in the top 450 keV region near the endpoint. The experimental resolution was taken into account using Monte Carlo techniques. The data were analyzed using a model of this reaction based on a half off-shell NN T matrix and the elementary γπ operator due to Lee and Nozawa.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997APS..DNP..BG07S