Excitation of the Δ\Delta Resonance in the 12^{12}C (ee, ee^\prime) Reaction

1988
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 38 (1988) 2187-2192

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Abstract: (APS)
The inclusive (e,e’) scattering from nuclei is studied with the assumption that the electromagnetic production of pions from the nucleon can be described by a model consisting of the conventional Born term and a Δ-excitation term. We show that the global features of the recent data of the inclusive C12(e,e’) reaction in the GeV energy region can be described by the following procedures: (1) the parameters of the constructed one-body and two-body current operators are fitted to the total cross sections of γN→πN, p(e,e’), and γd→np; (2) the medium effect on the Δ propagation is treated according to the information extracted from the Δ-hole model calculation. It is found that the two-body mechanism of Δ annihilation by the nuclear medium improves the fit to the data in the ‘‘dip’’ region. The predicted magnitudes in the Δ region are lower than the data, indicating the importance of more complicated multinucleon mechanisms.
  • ELECTRON LIGHT NUCLEUS: INCLUSIVE REACTION
  • ELECTRON LIGHT NUCLEUS: INELASTIC SCATTERING
  • INELASTIC SCATTERING: ELECTRON LIGHT NUCLEUS
  • CARBON
  • DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION: ENERGY LOSS
  • ENERGY LOSS: DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION
  • ANGULAR DEPENDENCE
  • DELTA(1232): EFFECT
  • APPROXIMATION: BORN
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS: INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS