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Characterization of Recombination Effects in a Liquid Ionization Chamber Used for the Dosimetry of a Radiosurgical Accelerator
Published on: May 9, 2014
Reconciling coulomb dissociation and radiative capture measurements
H Esbensen1, G F Bertsch, K A Snover
1Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Abstract:
We calculate the energy spectrum for 8B dissociation on a Pb target to all orders in the Coulomb and nuclear fields, and show that the slope of S17(E) obtained in previous analyses of Coulomb dissociation data is too steep, due to deficiencies in the conventional first-order analysis that was used. With a more complete theory that avoids the far-field approximation and includes E2, nuclear and dynamical projectile polarization, the disagreement between indirect and direct methods for determining the S17(E) slope and the extrapolated S17(0) values is reduced significantly.
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