Journal article

Publication year: 1987

Pages: 579-597

Journal: Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics

Volume number: 475

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0375-9474

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(87)90080-7

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 

The production of energetic photons in medium-energy proton and heavy-ion induced reactions is studied on the basis of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. For this purpose we first evaluate covariantly the photon production from proton-neutron collisions in a vector (ω) and scalar meson (σ) exchange model with coupling constants given by the M2Y G-matrix in the nonrelativistic limit. We furthermore follow the proton-neutron collisional history by means of a phase-space simulation based on the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck approach for proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions adding up incoherently the yields from each individual collision. The satisfactory agreement we obtain in comparison with experimental data allows to conclude that energetic photons predominantly arise from proton-neutron bremsstrahlung during the early stage of the collision.

Harvard Citation style: Biro, T., Niita, K., De Paoli, A., Bauer, W., Cassing, W. and Mosel, U. (1987) Microscopic theory of photon production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions, Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, 475(3), pp. 579-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(87)90080-7

APA Citation style: Biro, T., Niita, K., De Paoli, A., Bauer, W., Cassing, W., & Mosel, U. (1987). Microscopic theory of photon production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics. 475(3), 579-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(87)90080-7