Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Pion Scattering from Li

Abstract

We show that the neutron and proton transition densities predicted by recent quantum Monte Carlo calculations for A=6,7 nuclei are consistent with pion scattering from 6Li and 7Li at energies near the Delta resonance. This has provided a microscopic understanding of the enhancement factors for quadrople excitations, which were needed to describe pion inelastic scattering within the nuclear shell model of Cohen and Kurath.

10 pages, REVTeX, 3 postscript figures; added calculation of elastic and inelastic pion scattering from 6Li at multiple energies

References in corpus (1)

• Nuclear structure studies with the 7Li(e,e'p) reaction

Cited by in corpus (2)

• Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei
• Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electroweak transition matrix elements in A = 6,7 nuclei