Abstract

The pi-mesonic decay of hypernuclei is studied by using the pion distorted waves which are the solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation with the optical potential. The distortions of the pion waves give rise to significant enhancement of theπ-decay rate compared with the pion free-wave case. Theπ-decay rates are very sensitive to the behavior of the pion wave deep inside the nucleus and therefore to the chosen pion optical potentials. There is a tendency that the enhancement is larger for theπ−-decay than for theπ0-decay due to the combined effects of the Coulomb and optical potentials.

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