Photoemission of protons from 4He in the ⊿-resonance region

High resolution proton energy spectra from the 4He(γ,p) reaction have been measured with tagged photons in the range Eγ = 130–525 MeV using the large Mainz NaI(Tl) spectrometer at \([Theta _p^{lab} = 37.1^circ ]\). Three separate reaction channels were identified, viz. 4He(γ,p)t two-body breakup, 4He photodisintegration via two-nucleon photon absorption processes and the quasifree pion production channel. Differential cross sections are presented for each of these channels as a function of photon energy. The sum of the two-nucleon photon absorption and the quasifree pion production differential cross sections, in the CM system, resembles that of the corresponding free-nucleon differential cross section when Fermi motion is taken into account.