Coherent and Incoherent Elastic Photoproduction of π0 Meson on Light Nuclei

The paper presents calculations of the cross sections of the elastic photoproduction for π0 meson on 6Li, 7Li and 9Be nuclei in terms of the impulse approximation using the intermediate coupling p-shell model. Measurements are performed in the excitation energy region of Δ(1232)3/2+ resonance. The algorithm of the cross section selection is proposed for γ7Li → π07Li reaction. These calculation results are in good agreement with the experimental data on the elastic photoproduction cross sections for π0 meson on 7Li nucleus obtained by other authors [2].