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Quasifree pion electroproduction from nuclei in the {Delta} region

Abstract

We present calculations of the reaction {Alpha} (e, e{sup 1}{pi} N)B in the distorted wave impulse approximation. The reaction allows for the study of the production process in the nuclear medium without being obscured by the details of nuclear transition densities. First, a pion electroproduction operator suitable for nuclear calculations is obtained by extending the Blomqvist-Laget photoproduction operator to the virtual photon case. The operator is gauge invariant, unitary, reference frame independent, and describes the existing data reasonably well. Then it is applied in nuclei to predict nuclear cross sections under a variety of kinematic arrangements. Issues such as the effects of gauge-fixing, the interference of the {Delta} resonance with the background, sensitivities to be guadrupole component of the {Delta} excitation and to the electromagnetic form factors, the role of final-state interactions, are studied in detail. Methods on how to experimentally separate the various pieces in the coincidence cross section are suggested. Finally, the model is compared to recent SLAC experiment. (authors) 35 refs., 22 figs.
Authors:
Lee, F X; [1]  Wright, L E; [2]  Bennhold, C [3] 
  1. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  2. Ohio Univ., Inst. of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Dept. of Physics, Athens, OH (United States)
  3. George Washington Univ., Center for Nuclear Studies, Dept. of Physics, Washington, DC (United States)
Publication Date:
Oct 01, 1995
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
TRI-PP-95-84
Reference Number:
SCA: 663420; PA: AIX-30:000779; EDB-99:017622; SN: 99002052819
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: 35 refs., 22 figs.; PBD: Oct 1995
Subject:
66 PHYSICS; DELTA BARYONS; DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS; DISTORTED WAVE THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTROPRODUCTION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; IMPULSE APPROXIMATION; INELASTIC SCATTERING; PARTICLE KINEMATICS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PIONS
OSTI ID:
299070
Research Organizations:
TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Country of Origin:
Canada
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE99611568; TRN: CA9800618000779
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE99611568
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
19 p.
Announcement Date:
Feb 01, 1999

Citation Formats

Lee, F X, Wright, L E, and Bennhold, C. Quasifree pion electroproduction from nuclei in the {Delta} region. Canada: N. p., 1995. Web.
Lee, F X, Wright, L E, & Bennhold, C. Quasifree pion electroproduction from nuclei in the {Delta} region. Canada.
Lee, F X, Wright, L E, and Bennhold, C. 1995. "Quasifree pion electroproduction from nuclei in the {Delta} region." Canada.
@misc{etde_299070,
title = {Quasifree pion electroproduction from nuclei in the {Delta} region}
author = {Lee, F X, Wright, L E, and Bennhold, C}
abstractNote = {We present calculations of the reaction {Alpha} (e, e{sup 1}{pi} N)B in the distorted wave impulse approximation. The reaction allows for the study of the production process in the nuclear medium without being obscured by the details of nuclear transition densities. First, a pion electroproduction operator suitable for nuclear calculations is obtained by extending the Blomqvist-Laget photoproduction operator to the virtual photon case. The operator is gauge invariant, unitary, reference frame independent, and describes the existing data reasonably well. Then it is applied in nuclei to predict nuclear cross sections under a variety of kinematic arrangements. Issues such as the effects of gauge-fixing, the interference of the {Delta} resonance with the background, sensitivities to be guadrupole component of the {Delta} excitation and to the electromagnetic form factors, the role of final-state interactions, are studied in detail. Methods on how to experimentally separate the various pieces in the coincidence cross section are suggested. Finally, the model is compared to recent SLAC experiment. (authors) 35 refs., 22 figs.}
place = {Canada}
year = {1995}
month = {Oct}
}