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Physics observables for color transparency

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The physics observables dedicated to the study of color transparency are diverse. After a brief pedagogical introduction, we emphasize the complementarity of the nuclear filtering and color transparency concepts. The importance of quantum interferences leads to suspect pictures based on the preparation of a squeezed state of small transverse size leading to a rapid transverse expansion. The different roles of heavy and light nuclei are emphasized. The possibility of color transparency tests in the vacuum is stressed. Such a test may be quickly addressed in the virtual Compton scattering reactions at CEBAF or HERMES energies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9712264,
  title  = {Physics observables for color transparency},
  author = {Bernard Pire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9712264},
  year   = {2007}
}

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to be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop: Color Transparency'97, held in Grenoble, France, June 1997