Exclusive and Semi-Exclusive Reactions at a Higher Energy CEBAF

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:841725

Carlson, Carl

More energy at CEBAF provides more opportunity for studies of hadron and nuclear properties. Many of the experiments that could be done are extensions of things already done at lower energies. Others represent new initiatives that could not work or could not theoretically be interpreted at lower energies. The author concentrates on the new initiatives, but do not wish our thinking to neglect what can be learned from continuations of lower energy work. The author begins with a list of some things that should be continued into a new energy regime. (1) Baryon and meson spectroscopy of higher mass states. With 4 GeV incoming electron energy, strange mesons are limited to 1.8 GeV in mass and charm is not producible. (2) Exclusive reactions, including meson and baryon form factors and reactions on few nucleon systems. The latter includes deuteron photodisintegration, the A and B form factors of the deuteron, and the deuteron tensor polarization T{sub 20}. (And we should not forget T{sub 20} in inclusive scattering.) (3) Hadrons in the nuclear medium, with such topics as color transparency, electroproduction of {rho} mesons, virtual Compton scattering off nuclei, and backward hadrons from e-d reactions. The very last must be especially important, since it gives the logo used in the advertizing for this conference. In addition, there are new initiatives that this talk will call attention to, in particular: (1) semi-exclusive meson production; (2) duality in semi-exclusive reactions; and (3) new views of exclusive reactions and perturbative QCD (leading to ''off-forward parton distributions'').

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 841725
• Report Number(s): JLAB-THY-98-60; DOE/ER/40150-3490; TRN: US0502777
• Resource Relation: Conference: Jefferson Lab Physics & Instrumentation with 6-12 GeV Beams, Newport News, VA (US), 06/15/1998--06/18/1998; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BARYONS
COMPTON EFFECT
DEUTERONS
ELECTROPRODUCTION
FORM FACTORS
HADRONS
MESON SPECTROSCOPY
NUCLEAR PROPERTIES
PARTONS
PHOTONUCLEAR REACTIONS
POLARIZATION
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
STRANGE MESONS