https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10115-8
Nuclear Structure and Reactions
Relativistic effects in exclusive neutron-deuteron breakup
M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, PL-30059, Kraków, Poland
Received:
9
June
2006
Accepted:
23
September
2006
Published online:
24
October
2006
We extended the study of relativistic effects in neutron-deuteron scattering to the exclusive breakup. To this aim we solved the three-nucleon Faddeev equation including such relativistic features as relativistic kinematics and boost effects at incoming neutron laboratory energies E n lab = 65MeV, 156MeV and 200MeV. As dynamical input a relativistic nucleon-nucleon interaction exactly on-shell equivalent to the CD Bonn potential has been used. We found that the magnitude of relativistic effects increases with the incoming neutron energy and, depending on the phase-space region, relativity can increase as well as decrease the nonrelativistic breakup cross-section. In some regions of the breakup phase-space dynamical boost effects are important. For a number of measured exclusive cross-sections relativity seems to improve the description of data.
PACS: 21.45.+v Few-body systems – / 24.10.Jv Relativistic models – / 25.10.+s Nuclear reactions involving few-nucleon systems –
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