Journal article

Publication year: 2006

Journal: Physical Review C

Volume number: 74

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0556-2813

eISSN: 1089-490X

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.74.044610

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
We have applied the Giessen GiBUU (GiBUU) transport model to the description of the double-charge exchange (DCX) reaction of pions with different nuclear targets at incident kinetic energies of 120-180 MeV. The DCX process is highly sensitive to details of the interactions of pions with the nuclear medium and, therefore, represents a major benchmark for any model of pion scattering off nuclei at low and intermediate energies. The impact of surface effects, such as the neutron skins of heavy nuclei, is investigated. The dependence of the total cross section on the nuclear mass number is also discussed. We achieve a good quantitative agreement with the extensive data set obtained at LAMPF. Furthermore, we compare the solutions of the transport equations obtained in the test-particle ansatz using two different schemes: the full and the parallel ensemble methods.

Harvard Citation style: Buss, O., Alvarez-Ruso, L., Larionov, A. and Mosel, U. (2006) Pion-induced double-charge exchange reactions in the Δ resonance region, Physical Review C, 74(4), Article 044610. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.74.044610

APA Citation style: Buss, O., Alvarez-Ruso, L., Larionov, A., & Mosel, U. (2006). Pion-induced double-charge exchange reactions in the Δ resonance region. Physical Review C. 74(4), Article 044610. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.74.044610