The total photoabsorption cross section for Li7, C, Al, Cu, Sn, Pb has been measured in the energy range 300–1200 MeV at Frascati with the jet-target tagged photon beam. A 4π NaI crystal detector and a lead-glass shower counter were used, respectively, to measure hadronic events and to reject the electromagnetic background. Data above 600 MeV clearly indicate a broadening of higher nucleon resonance peaks in nuclei and a reduction of the absolute value of the cross section per nucleon with respect to the free-nucleon case. This large broadening suggests a strong influence of the nuclear medium in the resonance propagation and interaction, while the systematic reduction of the measured cross sections might be due to a depletion of the resonance excitation strength and to the onset of the shadowing effect around 1 GeV. Moreover, our systematic study indicates that also the Δ-resonance excitation parameters are not the same for all nuclei, being its mass and width increasing with the nuclear density. © 1996 The American Physical Society.
The average (GAMMA NUCLEON --> X) is computed each nucleus cross section datum with its statistical error.
Multiple-neutron events ( γ , i n…) for Pb have been recorded according to their neutron multiplicity i , for i ⩾ 1 with a quasi-monoenergetic photon beam obtained by the annihilation in flight of monochromatic positrons. These experimental results, taken with photon energies E γ from 145 up to 440 MeV, are subsequently used to determine the partial sum σ (2) ( E γ )= Σ i ⩾2 σ ( γ , i n…) and to evaluate the ensuing total photonuclear absorption cross section σ (tot: Eγ ).
DATA FROM ARENDS ET AL., PL 98B/ 423/81 AND ROST (DISSERTATION) BONN IR-80-10 (1980).
DATA FROM ARENS ET AL. PHOTOPION NUCLEAR PHYSICS, ED. P. STOLER (PLENUM NEW YORK, 1969) P. 385.
DATA FROM LEPRETRE ET AL., NP A367/237/81 AND CARLOS ET AL., NP A378/317/82 FOR E<140 MEV AND THIS EXPERIMENT FOR E>140 MEV.
We have measured total hadronic photoproduction cross sections on carbon, copper, and lead. Tagged-photon energies ranged from 20 to 185 GeV for copper and from 45 to 82 GeV for carbon and lead. The energy and A dependence of shadowing were computed by comparing these results to the hydrogen cross section as measured nearly simultaneously with the same apparatus. We observed somewhat more shadowing than did most experiments at lower photon energies.
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Final total cross sections are given for a counter experiment at SLAC on hadronic photon absorption in hydrogen, deuterium, carbon, copper, and lead at incident energies from 3.7 to 18.3 GeV. Some of the nucleon cross sections have been revised and the C, Cu, and Pb data from 3.7 to 7.4 GeV have not been reported previously. The cross sections for complex nuclei vary approximately as A0.9 in our energy range, indicating that the photon interacts, at least partially, as a strongly interacting particle. The energy dependences of the proton and neutron cross sections are also similar to those of hadron-nucleon cross sections and hence may be fitted by a typical Regge parametrization, yielding σT(γp)=(98.7±3.6)+(65.0±10.1)ν−12 μb and σT(γn)=(103.4±6.7)+(33.1±19.4)ν−12 μb, where ν is the photon energy in GeV. These extrapolate to the same value at infinite energy, consistent with Pomeranchukon exchange, and the energy-dependent part yields an isovector-to-isoscalar-exchange ratio of 0.18 ± 0.06. While these observations are qualitatively consistent with vector meson dominance, quantitatively vector dominance fails in relating our results to ρ photo-production on hydrogen or to experiments determining the ρ-nucleon cross section. Vector dominance cannot be rescued by assuming that the ρ-photon coupling constant depends on the photon mass. Instead, an additional short-range interaction is apparently required, possibly due to a heavy (≳ 2 GeV / c2) vector meson or to a bare-photon interaction. The additional interaction accounts for approximately 20% of the total photoabsorption cross section.
DATA ARE GROUPED IN SETS OF FOUR TAGGING ENERGIES FOR EACH INCIDENT POSITRON ENERGY.
CROSS SECTIONS FOR EACH INCIDENT POSITRON ENERGY AVERAGED OVER THE FOUR TAGGING ENERGIES.
TOTAL CROSS SECTION, EFFECTIVE NUCLEON NUMBER (A-EFF) AND EFFECTIVE ATTENUATION (A-EFF/A) FOR CARBON, COPPER AND LEAD TARGETS. 'SIG(NUCLEON)' IS THE AVERAGE NUCLEON CROSS SECTION.
The total cross section of hadron photoproduction on C, Cu and Pb nuclei is measured for six energy values in the range 12–30 GeV. The obtained cross-section values for C and Cu nuclei have a weak energy dependence at high energies (above 20 GeV). The cross section for the Pb nucleus is somewhat higher in comparison with that expected, and energy dependence is not observed. The A -dependence of the effective number of hadrons agrees with VDM predictions.
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A-EFFECTIVE/A = SIG(GAMMA A)/(Z*SIG(GAMMA P) + (A-Z)*SIG(GAMMA N)) WHERE SIG(GAMMA P) = (98.7 +- 3.6) + (65 +- 10)/SQRT(P) MUB, SIG(GAMMA N) = SIG(GAMMA P) - (18.3 +- 6.1)/SQRT(P) MUB AND A IS 12, 64 AND 207 FOR THESE NUCLEI.
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