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Photodisintegration Of 4He Into P+T, Clas Collaboration, M. J. Amaryan, S. L. Careccia, G. E. Dodge, C. E. Hyde, S. E. Kuhn, M. Mayer, C. S. Nepali, M. R. Niroula, H. Seraydaryan, S. Tkachenko, L.B. Weinstein, J. Zhang

Physics Faculty Publications

The two-body photodisintegration of 4He into a proton and a triton has been studied using the CEBAF Large-Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Real photons produced with the Hall-B bremsstrahlung-tagging system in the energy range from 0.35 to 1.55 GeV were incident on a liquid ⁴He target. This is the first measurement of the photodisintegration of ⁴He above 0.4 GeV. The differential cross sections for the γ ⁴He →pt reaction were measured as a function of photon-beam energy and proton-scattering angle and are compared with the latest model calculations by J.-M. Laget. At …