Theoretical Spectral Distributions and Total Cross Sections for Neutral Subthreshold Pion Production in Carbon-Carbon Collisions

J. W. Norbury; F. A. Cucinotta; P. A. Deutchman; L. W. Townsend

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.681

Theoretical Spectral Distributions and Total Cross Sections for Neutral Subthreshold Pion Production in Carbon-Carbon Collisions

J. W. Norbury, F. A. Cucinotta, P. A. Deutchman, and L. W. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 681 – Published 12 August 1985

Abstract

With use of a recently developed particle-hole theory for pion production from coherent isobar formation and decay, calculations of total cross sections and kinetic-energy distributions for neutral subthreshold pions produced in carbon-carbon collisions at incident energies below 100 MeV/nucleon are made and compared with recent experimental data.