Exclusive measurement of quasifree proton-neutron bremsstrahlung

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 May 21;92(20):202301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.202301. Epub 2004 May 19.

Abstract

Data on proton-neutron bremsstrahlung have been obtained from a measurement of the quasifree breakup channel in proton-deuteron bremsstrahlung. This high-precision measurement, with an incident proton energy of 190 MeV, is fully exclusive; i.e., the protons, the neutron, and the photon have been detected. The quasifree differential cross sections obtained are compared with microscopic calculations and calculations based on soft-photon models. There are sizable differences between the models and also between the models and the data obtained for this simple process.