A mean-field description of (γ, pi) cross sections at medium energies

Differential (γ, pi) cross sections on ¹⁶O and ⁴⁰Ca have been calculated within a single-particle direct knock-out model, for photon energies between 40 and 400 MeV. It is shown that generating the bound and scattered states in a Skyrme Hartree-Fock (HF) mean-field, one can account for the global features of the data. Hereby, the role of the velocity-dependent part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction is emphasized.