Rescattering in meson photoproduction from few body systems
Exclusive reactions induced at high momentum transfer in few body systems provide us with an original way to study the production and propagation of hadrons in cold nuclear matter. In very well-defined parts of the phase space, the reaction amplitude develops a logarithmic singularity. It is on solid ground since it depends on only on-shell elementary amplitudes and on low momentum components of the nuclear wave function. This is the best window for studying the propagation of exotic configurations of hadrons such as the onset of color transparency. It may appear earlier in meson-photoproduction reactions, more particularly in the strange sector, than in the more classical quasi-elastic scattering of electrons. More generally, those reactions provide us with the best tool to determine the cross section of the scattering of various hadrons (strange particles, vector mesons) from the nucleon and to obtain the production of possible exotic states.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- OSTI ID:
- 882548
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-THY-05-465; DOE/ER/40150-3891
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review C, Vol. 73
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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