Deuteron compton scattering below pion threshold

Myers, Luke S.

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Description

Title

Deuteron compton scattering below pion threshold

Author(s)

Myers, Luke S.

Issue Date

2011-01-14T22:46:31Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Nathan, Alan M.

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Hertzog, David W.

Committee Member(s)

• Nathan, Alan M.
• Stack, John D.
• Mestre, Jose P.

Department of Study

Physics

Discipline

Physics

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Neutron
• Isoscalar
• Polarizability

Abstract

A series of experiments were performed at the Tagged Photon Facility at MAX-lab in Lund, Sweden to study photon scattering from the deuteron and extract the neutron polarizabilities. The deuteron Compton scattering cross section was measured at laboratory angles of $60^o$, $120^o$, and $150^o$ for photon energies from 70 - 112 MeV. The photons were scattered from the Lund liquid deuterium target and detected in three large (20'' x 20'') NaI photon spectrometers. These detectors have sufficient energy resolution ($\sim$2$\%$ at 100 MeV) to separate the elastically and inelastically scattered photons. The extracted scattering cross section for this experiment was found to have angular distributions that matched prior experiments but needed a scaling factor to bring the absolute cross section into agreement. This scaling factor was determined to have a value of 1.47 $\pm$ 0.10. Suggestions are made for future studies that could yield further knowledge of the scaling factor and potentially allow for this data to be re-normalized.

Graduation Semester

2010-12

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Copyright 2010 Luke S. Myers

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