Photonuclear reactions at intermediate energies (40 MeV⩽E γ⩽400 MeV)

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the subject of photonuclear reactions of the type (γ, p), (γ, n), (γ, np), (γ, nn), (γ, pp) as well as nucle on capture reactions as (p, γ) at intermediate photon energies. The theoretical part of this paper reviews and extends earlier calculations of the authors up t gamma energies of E γ ≈ 400 MeV. The paper is not intended to give a review on different theoretical approaches which have been underta ken in the past. Instead, emphasis is put on the dynamical aspects of the photonuclear reactions in order to see which elementary processes govern the reactions at different photon energies. In view of the success of the present treatment up to E γ ≈ 120 MeV photon energy, we tempt the predictive power of the model up to photon energies of E γ ≈ 400 MeV for the reactions in 4He and 16O.