Probing short-range nucleon-nucleon interactions with an electron-ion collider

Miller, Gerald A.; Sievert, Matthew D.; Venugopalan, Raju

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045202

Title: Probing short-range nucleon-nucleon interactions with an electron-ion collider

Journal Article · Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045202· OSTI ID:1336044

Miller, Gerald A. ^[1]; Sievert, Matthew D. ^[2]; Venugopalan, Raju ^[3]

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Department of Physics
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Physics Department
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Physics Department; Heidelberg Univ. (Germany). Inst. for Theoretische Physik

For this research, we derive the cross section for exclusive vector meson production in high-energy deeply inelastic scattering off a deuteron target that disintegrates into a proton and a neutron carrying large relative momentum in the final state. This cross section can be expressed in terms of a novel gluon transition generalized parton distribution (T-GPD); the hard scale in the final state makes the T-GPD sensitive to the short-distance nucleon-nucleon interaction. We perform a toy model computation of this process in a perturbative framework and discuss the time scales that allow the separation of initial- and final-state dynamics in the T-GPD. We outline the more general computation based on the factorization suggested by the toy computation: In particular, we discuss the relative role of “pointlike” and “geometric” Fock configurations that control the parton dynamics of short-range nucleon-nucleon scattering. With the aid of exclusive J/ψ production data at the Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator at DESY, as well as elastic nucleon-nucleon cross sections, we estimate rates for exclusive deuteron photodisintegration at a future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Our results, obtained using conservative estimates of EIC integrated luminosities, suggest that center-of-mass energies sNN ~12GeV² of the neutron-proton subsystem can be accessed. We argue that the high energies of the EIC can address outstanding dynamical questions regarding the short-range quark-gluon structure of nuclear forces by providing clean gluon probes of such “knockout” exclusive reactions in light and heavy nuclei.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; FG02-97ER41014; FG02-97ER-41014

OSTI ID:: 1336044

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1246177

Report Number(s):: BNL-112264-2016-JA; KB0301020

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 93, Issue 4; ISSN 2469-9985

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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