Tensor Correlations Measured in 3He(e,e'pp)n
Nuclear Experiment
2010-12-03 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We have measured the 3He(e,e'pp)n reaction at an incident energy of 4.7 GeV over a wide kinematic range. We identified spectator correlated pp and pn nucleon pairs using kinematic cuts and measured their relative and total momentum distributions. This is the first measurement of the ratio of pp to pn pairs as a function of pair total momentum, . For pair relative momenta between 0.3 and 0.5 GeV/c, the ratio is very small at low and rises to approximately 0.5 at large . This shows the dominance of tensor over central correlations at this relative momentum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.3100,
title = {Tensor Correlations Measured in 3He(e,e'pp)n},
author = {H. Baghdasaryan and L. B. Weinstein and J. M. Laget and K. P. Adhikari and M. Aghasyan and M. Amarian and M. Anghinolfi and H. Avakian and J. Ball and M. Battaglieri and I. Bedlinskiy and B. L. Berman and A. S. Biselli and C. Bookwalter and W. J. Briscoe and W. K. Brooks and S. Bültmann and V. D. Burkert and D. S. Carman and V. Crede and A. D'Angelo and A. Daniel and N. Dashyan and R. DeVita and E. DeSanctis and A. Deur and B. Dey and R. Dickson and C. Djalali and G. E. Dodge and D. Doughty and R. Dupre and H. Egiyan and A. El Alaoui and L. El Fassi and P. Eugenio and S. Fegan and M. Y. Gabrielyan and G. P. Gilfoyle and K. L. Giovanetti and W. Gohn and R. W. Gothe and K. A. Griffioen and M. Guidal and L. Guo and V. Gyurjyan and H. Hakobyan and C. Hanretty and C. E. Hyde and K. Hicks and M. Holtrop and Y. Ilieva and D. G. Ireland and K. Joo and D. Keller and M. Khandaker and P. Khetarpal and A. Kim and W. Kim and A. Klein and F. J. Klein and P. Konczykowski and V. Kubarovsky and S. E. Kuhn and S. V. Kuleshov and V. Kuznetsov and N. D. Kvaltine and K. Livingston and H. Y. Lu and I. J. D. MacGregor and N. Markov and M. Mayer and J. McAndrew and B. McKinnon and C. A. Meyer and K. Mikhailov and V. Mokeev and B. Moreno and K. Moriya and B. Morrison and H. Moutarde and E. Munevar and P. Nadel-Turonski and C. Nepali and S. Niccolai and G. Niculescu and I. Niculescu and M. Osipenko and A. I. Ostrovidov and R. Paremuzyan and K. Park and S. Park and E. Pasyuk and S. Anefalos Pereira and S. Pisano and O. Pogorelko and S. Pozdniakov and J. W. Price and S. Procureur and D. Protopopescu and G. Ricco and M. Ripani and G. Rosner and P. Rossi and F. Sabatié and C. Salgado and R. A. Schumacher and H. Seraydaryan and G. D. Smith and D. I. Sober and D. Sokhan and S. S. Stepanyan and S. Stepanyan and P. Stoler and S. Strauch and M. Taiuti and W. Tang and C. E. Taylor and D. J. Tedeschi and M. Ungaro and M. F. Vineyard and E. Voutier and D. P. Watts and D. P. Weygand and M. H. Wood and B. Zhao and Z. W. Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3100},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL