Theoretical Response to the Discovery of Deeply Bound Pionic States in 208Pb(d,3He) reactions

Abstract

Recently, deeply bound pionic states were found experimentally in (d, ${}^3$He) reactions on ${}^{208}$Pb. They found an isolated peak structure in the bound region below the pion production threshold. We study theoretically these excitation functions in (d, ${}^3$He) reactions on ${}^{208}$Pb at T${}_d$=600 MeV. We found very good agreement with the (d, ${}^3$He) excitation functions and could identify the underlying structures of the pionic states. We study the energy dependence of the (d, ${}^3$He) reactions and the change of the excitation functions with the incident energy.

5 pages, Latex, Figures available on request, Z.Phys.A.accepted