Quasi Two-Body Scaling: A Study of High Momentum Nucleons in Nuclear Matter

Dec, 1976
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 38 (1977) 1338
Report number:
  • UPR-0066T Rev,
  • UPR-0066T

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Abstract: (APS)
I show that the shapes of the differential cross sections for the "backward" production of high-energy particles (p, d, t, …, B11), by projectiles of various types (p, d, α), from nuclei of any A (Be,...,U), and for a large range of incident momenta and backward angles, can be related by quasi-two-body kinematics. This permits the direct determination of the shape of the momentum distribution of high-momentum nucleons in nuclear matter. This distribution is shown to be F(k)=exp(−kk0)k over the range 0.4 to 1.5 GeV/c.
Note:
  • Revised version
  • INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS
  • LIGHT NUCLEUS NUCLEUS: NUCLEAR REACTION
  • LIGHT NUCLEUS: PRODUCTION
  • PRODUCTION: LIGHT NUCLEUS
  • BACKSCATTER: PRODUCTION
  • PRODUCTION: BACKSCATTER
  • DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION
  • KINEMATICS: APPROXIMATION
  • NUCLEON: MOMENTUM SPECTRUM
  • MATTER