Scattering of Strongly Interacting Particles on Nu

Authors: F Scheck

Publish Date: 1996

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 356-406

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Abstract

This chapter deals with the interaction of strongly interacting particles hadrons with nuclei at low and intermediate energies The hadronic projectiles are used as probes of nuclear properties and of the hadronnucleon interaction in the nuclear medium and they are selected accordingly We discuss mainly the case of pions to some extent also kaons because of the specific properties of the pionkaonnucleon system Some of the methods and results can also be applied to nucleons if these are chosen to be projectiles but we do not go into the full complexity of the spin analysis of the nucleonnucleon system In this sense this field is distinct from the conventional topic of nuclear reactions for which there are many excellent treatises in the literature on Nuclear Physics Conventional nuclear reactions are mostly studied in their own right with the primary aim of understanding and formulating the reaction mechanism itself In intermediate energy physics the reaction mechanism is believed or assumed to be known and the scattering process is analyzed in terms of properties of the nucleus and of the elementary projectilenucleon system1

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