1. Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via H3 and He3 (e,e′p)pn Cross-Section Measurements
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M. Mihovilovic, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Darko Androić, D. Blyth, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, R. Obrecht, Andrew Puckett, Toshiyuki Gogami, Shalev Gilad, H. F. Ibrahim, B. Karki, Dipangkar Dutta, J. Castellanos, N. Santiesteban, Afroditi Papadopoulou, Pete Markowitz, M. Duer, Misak Sargsian, J. Arrington, M. Khachatryan, K. A. Aniol, S. Alsalmi, Nikolaos Sparveris, W. Tireman, Henryk Witała, Z. E. Meziani, J. P. Chen, Siyu Jian, T. Gautam, A. Karki, P. E. Reimer, H. Bhatt, I. Korover, R. Cruz-Torres, Nilanga Liyanage, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, V. Bellini, M. N. H. Rashad, G. M. Urciuoli, S. Covrig, Elliot Hughes, Z. Ye, S. Mey-Tal Beck, B. Schmookler, L. Ou, Weidong Li, J. Gomez, Simon Širca, B. Pandey, H. Albataineh, S. Barcus, S. Premathilake, E. Piasetzky, Ronald Ransome, D. Nguyen, Or Hen, Vladimir Nelyubin, Shanfeng Li, A. Beck, A. Camsonne, E. Fuchey, A. S. Tadepalli, Jacek Golak, P. M. King, T. Averett, D. G. Meekins, A. T. Katramatou, A. Shahinyan, Alexander Schmidt, N. Nuruzzaman, C. E. Hyde, R. E. McClellan, T. Kutz, Larry Weinstein, F. Hauenstein, Sylvester Joosten, S. A. Wood, G. Laskaris, W. U. Boeglin, D. Bulumulla, D. Biswas, F. Tortorici, Olfred Hansen, J. Roche, G. G. Petratos, L. Tang, Fatiha Benmokhtar, H. Atac, R. Skibiński, Kondo Gnanvo, Aditya R. Khanal, M. Nycz, D. Abrams, Cynthia Keppel, X. Bai, S. Park, H. Szumila-Vance, B. Duran, E.P. Segarra, S. Riordan, V. Khachatryan, V. A. Punjabi, C. Gu, Vishvas Pandey, T. Hague, D. King, M. Hattawy, D. Bhetuwal, Eliahu Cohen, R. Michaels, Hongjun Liu, M. Olson, M. Patsyuk, Kacper Topolnicki, B. Sawatzky, N. Lashley-Colthirst, Jiawen Zhang, Whitney Armstrong, S. Paul, T. Su, B. Dongwi, Hiroyuki Kamada, Douglas Higinbotham, V. Owen, J. Bane, C. Gal, A. Habarakada, Riad Suleiman, and K. Craycraft
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Physics ,Scattering ,Isoscalar ,Nuclear Theory ,Momentum transfer ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Few-body systems ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,Cover (topology) ,0103 physical sciences ,Nuclear force ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Ground state ,Nucleon - Abstract
We report the first measurement of the (e,e^{'}p) three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (^{3}He) and tritium (^{3}H) at large momentum transfer [⟨Q^{2}⟩≈1.9 (GeV/c)^{2}] and x_{B}>1 kinematics, where the cross section should be sensitive to quasielastic (QE) scattering from single nucleons. The data cover missing momenta 40≤p_{miss}≤500 MeV/c that, in the QE limit with no rescattering, equals the initial momentum of the probed nucleon. The measured cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art ab initio calculations. Overall good agreement, within ±20%, is observed between data and calculations for the full p_{miss} range for ^{3}H and for 100≤p_{miss}≤350 MeV/c for ^{3}He. Including the effects of rescattering of the outgoing nucleon improves agreement with the data at p_{miss}>250 MeV/c and suggests contributions from charge-exchange (SCX) rescattering. The isoscalar sum of ^{3}He plus ^{3}H, which is largely insensitive to SCX, is described by calculations to within the accuracy of the data over the entire p_{miss} range. This validates current models of the ground state of the three-nucleon system up to very high initial nucleon momenta of 500 MeV/c.
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- 2020