Monte-Carlo Simulation of 3H(γ, pn)n and 3He(γ, pp)n Experiments at HIγS

Z. Han; F.Q.L. Friesen; C.R. Howell; M.W. Ahmed; B.J. Crowe; A.S. Crowell; L.C. Cumberbatch; B. Fallin; D. Ticehurst; W. Tornow; H. Witała

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611308009

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EPJ Web of Conferences 113, 08009 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611308009

Monte-Carlo Simulation of ³H(γ, pn)n and ³He(γ, pp)n Experiments at HIγS^★

Z. Han¹^a, F.Q.L. Friesen¹, C.R. Howell¹, M.W. Ahmed², B.J. Crowe², A.S. Crowell¹, L.C. Cumberbatch¹, B. Fallin¹, D. Ticehurst¹, W. Tornow¹ and H. Witała³

¹ Department of Physics, Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC, USA
² Department of Physics, North Carolina Central University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory(TUNL), Durham, NC, USA
³ M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

^a e-mail: zh27@duke.edu

Published online: 25 March 2016

Abstract

We are developing an experiment to measure the two and three-body (γ, p) differential cross sections (DCS) for ³H and ³He. These data will be used to determine the ¹S₀ nn scattering length (a_nn) and np scattering length (a_np) respectively. This paper describes features of the Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation that will aid in the optimization of the experimental design and the data analysis approach.

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This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under grant Nos. DE-FG02-97ER41033 and DE-SC0005367 and by the Polish National Science Center under Grant No.DEC-2013/10/M/ST2/00420.

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