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Low-Energy Photonuclear Reactions—A Review
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Low-Energy Photonuclear
Reactions—A Review
B.L. BermanDepartment of Physics
The George Washington UniversityWashington, DC 20052, USA
International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators
Vienna, Austria May 5, 2009
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Monoenergetic Photon Beams
• Positron Annihilation in Flight
– Livermore, Saclay
• Tagged Photons
– Illinois, Saskatchewan, MAX-lab at Lund
• [High-Energy: MAMI, Jefferson Lab]
• Compton Back-Scattering
– LEGS at BNL, HIγS at TUNL
• [High-Energy: GRAAL, SPRing-8]
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Polarized Photon Beams
• Positron Annihilation in Flight
– Unpolarized
• Tagged Photons
– Polarized at High-Energy Facilities Only
• Compton Back-Scattering
– Polarized
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Thanks to Kevin Fissum
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Research program
O’Rielly et al.
(SAL, 2004)
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3He(γ,d) – see arXiv:0903.2943
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Elastic Compton Scattering on D
� Motivation
� sumsum of proton and neutron polarizabilities
� σD(ω) ≈≈≈≈ r02 – 2 r0 ((αααααααα
pp+ + αααααααα
nn)) ω2
� Requirements
� must separate elasticelastic from breakup!
� monoenergetic (tagged) photons
� high-resolution photon detector (∆E/E < 2% at 100 MeV)
� Data
� Lucas – Illinois (1994) Eγ = 49, 69 MeV
� Hornidge – SAL (2000) Eγ = 85-105 MeV
� Lundin – Lund (2003) Eγ = 55, 66 MeV
� Theory
� diagrammatic approach (Levchuk/L’vov)
� EFT (Hildebrandt, Griesshammer, Hemmert, Phillips,… )
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Experiment at Lund
� energies: EEγγγγγγγγ = 60= 60--115 115 MeVMeV using tagged photonsusing tagged photons
� two tagger settings: 115-95 and 97-60 MeV
� bin data in 5 MeV energy bins (with 5% statistics)
� angles: θθθθθθθθγγγγγγγγ = 60= 60°°, 120, 120°°, 150, 150°°
� with 3 NaI detectors simultaneously
� detectors: 3 large-volume (50 cm × 50 cm) NaI’s
� excellent photon energy resolution (∆Eγ/Eγ ~ 2%)
BUNI: Boston Univ.
CATS: Mainz Univ.
UK: Univ. of Kentucky
UKCATS
BUNI120o
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Elastic Compton Scattering on the Deuteron
Illinois 49 MeV
Lund 55 MeV
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Illinois 69 MeV
Lund 66 MeV
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SAL 95 MeV
World Data Set
�� Lucas Lucas –– Illinois (1994)Illinois (1994)
EEγγγγγγγγ = 49, 69 = 49, 69 MeVMeV
�� HornidgeHornidge –– SAL (2000)SAL (2000)
EEγγγγγγγγ = 85= 85--105 105 MeVMeV
�� LundinLundin –– Lund (2003)Lund (2003)
EEγγγγγγγγ = 55, 66 = 55, 66 MeVMeV
Thanks to Jerry Feldman
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missing energy (MeV) time rel. to tagger
Carbon
Deuterium
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•Upgraded ΗΙγS Facility
• RF System with HOM Damping
• 1.2-GeV Booster Injector
Thanks to Henry Weller
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HIγS
•Nearly Mono-energetic γγγγ-rays from 2 to 160 MeV–Tunable Energies
–Energy resolution selected by collimator size
•Linearly and Circularly Polarized γγγγ-rays
•High Beam Intensities
•Pulsed Beam–TOF Techniques to reduce non-beam related backgrounds
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Experimental Setup
BC-501A
Liquid scintillators
Target at θ=45˚,φ=45˚
to make the out-going path
material length similar for
all θ=90˚ detectors
γ-ray beam direction
into the screen
Using 1” collimator
Approximate flux: 1x107 γ/s
1 meter flightpath
Thanks to Sean Stave
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Preliminary
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Preliminary
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Preliminary
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Preliminary
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Preliminary
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Preliminary
Elemental Identification
Preliminary
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Summary and Prospects for the Future• Although the main efforts in photonuclear physics have shifted to higher energies
(notably at Jefferson Lab) in the past 25 years, the new facilities at MAX-lab and HIγS are now beginning to produce significant low-energy photonuclear data.
• At both MAX-lab and HIγS, important experiments on few-body nuclei have been done or are under way.
• At MAX-lab, the Compton-scattering experiments that are underway promise to help us to understand and quantify the hitherto elusive nucleon polarizabilities.
• At HIγS, Compton-scattering experiments with polarized photons will enable us to quantify their spin polarizabilities as well.
• At HIγS, new data on photoneutron spectra from heavy nuclei enable one to distinguish fissionable nuclei from others.
• Most exciting, the fact that we now have polarized monoenergetic photon beams with intensities comparable to or greater than the unpolarized beams of the past means that virtually the entire field of low-energy photonuclear reactions can be re-done, with the expectation of uncovering a wholly new generation of both basic and applied physics results.
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–To be continued…