Issue |
EPL
Volume 85, Number 2, January 2009
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Article Number | 22001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Nuclear Physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/22001 | |
Published online | 07 January 2009 |
Analyzing power distribution in the 12C(p, pα)8Be(g.s.) reaction at an incident energy of 100 MeV
1
iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences - PO Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa
2
Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University - Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
Corresponding author: aac@sun.ac.za
Received:
17
November
2008
Accepted:
12
December
2008
The analyzing power distribution in the 12C(p, pα)8Be(g.s.) reaction at an incident energy of 100 MeV is investigated. The experimental coincidence data measured under quasifree kinematic conditions are in remarkable agreement with the trend of free p + 4He elastic scattering, and also with a distorted-wave impulse approximation prediction. Thus the projectiles interact with the clusters as if they were free entities, with the rest of the target nucleons acting merely as spectators to the reaction. This result provides compelling and direct evidence for the existence of preformed α-clusters in 12C, as has often been postulated for this nucleus.
PACS: 25.40.-h – Nucleon-induced reactions / 24.70.+s – Polarization phenomena in reactions / 21.60.Gx – Cluster models
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