Study of structure of deuteron from analysis of bremsstrahlung emission in proton-deuteron scattering in cluster models

K. A. Shaulskyi, S. P. Maydanyuk, V. S. Vasilevsky

Published 2024-04-18Version 1

Purpose: In this paper we investigated emission of bremsstrahlung photons in the scattering of protons off deuterons within the microscopic cluster models in a wide region of the beam energy from low energies up to 1.5 GeV. Methods: Three-cluster model of bremsstrahlung is constructed for such a reaction. Formalism of the model includes form factor of deuteron which characterizes dependence of bremsstrahlung cross sections on structure of deuteron. This gives possibility to investigate the structure of nuclei from analysis of bremsstrahlung cross sections. Results: We studied dependence of the bremsstrahlung cross section on the structure of deuteron. We use three different shapes of the deuteron wave functions. Besides, we also calculate the cross section by neglecting internal structure of deuteron. Analysis of dependence of the cross section on such a parameter shows the following. (1) At beam energies 145 and 195 MeV used in experiments bremsstrahlung cross section is not sensitive visibly on variations of the shape of the deuteron wave functions. (2) Stable difference between cross sections calculated with and without internal structure of deuteron is observed at higher energy of beam (larger 500 MeV). (3) The spectrum is increased as we pass from structureless deuteron (the oscillator length $b=0$) to the deuteron discribed by the shell-model wave function (the realistic oscillator length) inside the full energy region of the emitted photons. Conclusion: Our cluster model is a suitable tool to study the structure of deuteron with high enough precision from bremsstrahlung analysis. We propose new experiments for such an investigation.