Studies in photoproduction of pions from Nuclei

Abstract

This thesis aimed to make quantitative analysis of photoproduction of charged pions from nuclei and use it as a probe for studying the photoproduction mechanism, as well as the structure of the nuclei. A detailed study of charged pion photoproduction from nuclei based on a model of direct interaction between the incident photon and the individual nucleons, coupled with the impulse approximation. The configuration mixing particle-hole models, besides the simple independent particle model is used in the studies of photoproduction of charged pions from certain closed-shell nuclei.