Welcome to the new version of CaltechAUTHORS. Login is currently restricted to library staff. If you notice any issues, please email coda@library.caltech.edu
Published October 10, 1966 | public
Journal Article

Effective-range theory and the ground state of ^8Be

Abstract

It is shown that on the basis of the available data the width of the ^8Be ground state cannot be accurately determined from an effective-range analysis of the S-wave phase shift for α-α scattering.

Additional Information

© 1966 Published by Elsevier B.V. Received 5 August 1966. Supported in part by the Office of Naval Research [Nonr-220(47)]. The author would like to acknowledge the help provided by Martin Cooper in writing the programs used in these calculations. In addition, he wishes to thank H. Winkler for conversations related to the experiment of Benn et al. [l] and R. J. Slobodrian for conversations concerning corrections to the effective-range expansion due to vacuum polarization and charge distribution effects.

Additional details

Created:
August 19, 2023
Modified:
October 18, 2023