Deuteron Disintegration in Quark-Parton Model

Abstract

The deuteron disintegration process with the emission of fast proton in the vicinity of the kinematical boundary of the reaction, when Feynman variable $x\to 2$, is studied. The consideration is fulfilled in the framework of the quark-parton model of cumulative phenomena based on perturbative QCD calculations of the corresponding quark diagrams near the thresholds, at which some quarks ("donors") in the nuclear flucton transfer all their longitudinal momenta to the distinguished active quarks and become soft. The presence of the multi-quark $6q$-configuration in a deuteron is essentially exploited in the consideration. The different versions of hadronization mechanisms of the produced cumulative quarks into cumulative particles are analyzed. It is shown that in the case of the production of cumulative protons from deuteron the hadronization through the coalescence of three cumulative quarks is favorable and leads to the $(2-x)^5$ cross section threshold behavior whereas the usual hadronization through one cumulative quark fragmentation into proton the same as the calculations predicts for the deuteron structure function $F^d_2(x)$ at $x\to 2$ in DIS processes. The results of the calculations are compared with the available experimental data.