S. R. Beane, C. Y. Lee, U. van Kolck
Published 1995-06-22, updated 1995-12-07Version 2
Threshold neutral pion photoproduction on light nuclei is studied in the framework of baryon chiral perturbation theory. We obtain a general formula for the electric dipole amplitude in the special case of neutral pion photoproduction on a nucleus. To third order in small momenta, the amplitude is a sum of 2- and 3-body interactions with no undetermined parameters. With reasonable input from the single nucleon sector, our result for neutral pion photoproduction on the deuteron is in agreement with experiment.
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Journal: Phys.Rev.C52:2914-2924,1995
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