CALCULATION IN THE IMPULSE APPROXIMATION


    To calculate the total cross sections s tot, the reaction cross sections s r, and the integrated (s el) and differential cross sections for elastic scattering, we have used the algorithm and program presented in Refs. 21, 40, 41, and 47. The optical potential for the interaction of protons, pions, and kaons with nuclei was obtained in Refs. 20, 21, 40, 4l, and 47-49 by means of a generalization and development of the results of the investigations of Refs. 24, 46, and 50-54 in the form
where the summation is taken over the proton and neutron densities, l is the orbital angular momentum in the xA c.m.s., s is the spin of the proton in pA scattering or the spin of the nucleus in the meson-nucleus interaction, p is the momentum of the incident particle x in the xA c.m.s., w xN is the reduced energy in the xN c.m.s., r N(r) is the density of the nucleons N inside the nucleus, and g N is a kinematic factor in the strong-coupling approximation, which has the form [41] g N = A(sxN/sxA)1/2 MN/p, in which Mp = Z, Mn = A - Z, sij- is the s invariant of the (ij) system, A is the mass number, and Z is the charge of the nucleus. In the NA potential in the calculation, we have introduced a factor (A-1)/A: UpA(r)=U(r)(A-1)/A (see Refs. 55- 57), i.e., we have adopted the KMT approach in summing the multiple-scattering series (this makes it possible to obtain better agreement with experiment). For mesons, we have used Watson’s approach [57]. Expressions for the coefficients Ai, and Bi, were obtained in Refs. 21 and 40, and are given in Appendix 1 of the present paper. When they are calculated in terms of the amplitudes for interaction of the incident particle x with the nucleons N inside the nucleus, it is possible to include the S, P, D, F, G, H, I, and J waves. In the actual calculations, we used the results of phase-shift analyses [58-60]. The choice of the K+N amplitudes [58] was justified in Ref. 40. We note that the algorithm for obtaining the potential was constructed in Ref. 21 on the basis of an expansion of the elementary amplitudes in powers of the momentum transfer q in the xN c.m.s. In the calculations reported in the present paper, we discarded the terms of order (q/p)6 or higher in the expansion of the xN amplitudes with L>2. In comparison with experiment, this led to an overestimation of the calculated values of the differential cross sections for p 12C elastic scattering in the backward hemisphere at energies above 100 MeV (see Fig. 7). It should be noted that, in view of the smallness of the calculated and experimental cross sections in this kinematic region, the above-mentioned differences do not affect the conclusions of the present work. In the future, it will be possible to take into account all the terms in the expansion of the elementary amplitudes in order to obtain agreement with experiment in this region.
    The parameters of the nucleon densities for the nucleus 12C were taken to be the same as in Ref. 40 (in the calculations, we used a two-parameter Gaussian distribution). For the nucleus 4He, the parameters of a three-parameter Fermi distribution were taken from Ref. 23. For the deuteron, r N (r) was taken in the Hulthen and Gartenhaus-Moravcsik forms with the parameters given in Refs. 61 and 62, respectively, and also in the Gaussian form with the parameter obtained from the rms charge radius using the algorithm of Ref. 63 for taking into account the charge form factors of the nucleons. The form and the parameters of r N(r) are given in Appendix 2. In the calculations of the particle - nucleus interaction, we used the Klein - Gordon equation for spinless systems and the Schrodinger equation with relativistic kinematics for systems with spin.
    The experimental data were taken from Refs. 64-69 (see also the references in Refs. 1, 5, 9, 21, and 44) for the nucleon - nucleus interaction, from Refs. 70-79 (see also the references in Ref. 21) for pion - nucleus scattering, and from Refs. 43, 62, and 80 - 84 as well as the compilation of Ref. 85 for K+ - nucleus scattering. We also made usee of the compilation of Ref. 86.

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