| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R78633/01 |
| Title: |
Electromagnetic probes of light exotic nuclei |
| Principal Investigator: |
Al-Khalili, Professor J |
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Sch of Electronics & Physical Sciences |
| Organisation: |
University of Surrey |
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Fast Stream |
| Starts: |
01 December 2001 |
Ends: |
31 August 2003 |
Value (£): |
61,918
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The first, and main, part of the research Is a continuation of the work already begun with Dr Qiang Zhao, the PDRA appointed on the current Surrey nuclear theory grant, investigating the use of meson photoproduction reactions as a means of studying nuclear structure. In particular, the aim is to model the reaction gLi(y,a')eHe, using realistic few-body wavefunctions and a state-of-the-art quark model for the pion photoproduction, to compare with experimental data soon to become available from Mainz. It is hoped that such a reaction will provide a new and clean probe of the structure of the neutron halo in the ground state of $He.The second part of the project is to Investigate the feasibility of using model independent methods for extracting the charge density distributions of a range of light exotic nuclei from electron elastic scattering cross sections. While such data do not yet exist (since such nuclei are too short-lived to form a target in the more traditional way), two experimental facilities (GSI and RIKEN) are already moving towards building the required e-A colliders. In the longer term, the aim is to go beyond elastic scattering to look at A(e,e) quasielastic and knockout reactions on exotic and halo nuclei.
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