Kohärente Kleinwinkelstreuung hochenergetischer Pi-Mesonen an leichten Kernen ( 3He und 4 He)
Abstract The paper discusses recently obtained (theoretical) results on the coherent small angle elastic scattering of high energy pions on the nuclei 3 He and 4 He. Starting with the full suitably parametrized spin- and isospindependent pion-nucleon amplitude for pion laboratory energies between 0.826 and 2.01 GeV the Glauber’s plural scattering formula has been applied to derive the angular distribution of scattered pions. A concise report on the use of coherent high energy processes in the investigation of the nuclear structure and the hadron-nucleon scattering amplitude is given. The advantages and shortcomings as well as possible generalizations of the plural scattering model are outlined. The formalism applied to derive results on the structure of 3 He and 4 He and the conclusions drawn from the results on pion-helium scattering are presented in detail. It has been shown that an effective pion nucleon amplitude may safely replace the full amplitude in the present context and in the energy region mentioned above.