Spin-Momentum Correlations in Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from Deuterium
Abstract
We report on a measurement of spin-momentum correlations in quasi-elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons with an energy of 720 MeV from vector-polarized deuterium. The spin correlation parameter was measured for the reaction for missing momenta up to 350 MeV/ at a four-momentum transfer squared of 0.21 (GeV/c). The data give detailed information about the spin structure of the deuteron, and are in good agreement with the predictions of microscopic calculations based on realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials and including various spin-dependent reaction mechanism effects. The experiment demonstrates in a most direct manner the effects of the D-state in the deuteron ground-state wave function and shows the importance of isobar configurations for this reaction.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0109015,
title = {Spin-Momentum Correlations in Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from Deuterium},
author = {I. Passchier and L. D. van Buuren and D. Szczerba and R. Alarcon and Th. S. Bauer and D. Boersma and J. F. J. van den Brand and H. J. Bulten and R. Ent and M. Ferro-Luzzi and M. Harvey and P. Heimberg and D. W. Higinbotham and S. Klous and H. Kolster and J. Lang and B. L. Militsyn and D. Nikolenko and G. J. L. Nooren and B. E. Norum and H. R. Poolman and I. Rachek and M. C. Simani and E. Six and H. de Vries and K. Wang and Z. -L. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0109015},
year = {2014}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. for publication