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Production of pionic atoms in (n,p) reactions

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Abstract We make a theoretical study of the (n, p) reaction leading to the production of deeply bound nuclear pionic states. The cross sections obtained for the excitation of the 1s and 2p states in 208 Pb are found to be very small compared to the background at T n = 400 MeV. At energies around T n = 1000 MeV the chances are better but the ratio of signal to background is still only around 5% for the 2p states and 0.4% for the 1s state. The possibility of performing some extract coincidence test to reduce the background is indicated.