arXiv · nucl-th/0002012
Proton recoil polarization in exclusive (e,e'pp) reactions
Abstract
The general formalism of nucleon recoil polarization in the (${\vec e},e'{\vec N}N$) reaction is given. Numerical predictions are presented for the components of the outgoing proton polarization and of the polarization transfer coefficient in the specific case of the exclusive $^{16}$O(${\vec e},e'{\vec p}p$)$^{14}$C knockout reaction leading to discrete states in the residual nucleus. Reaction calculations are performed in a direct knockout framework where final-state interactions and one-body and two-body currents are included. The two-nucleon overlap integrals are obtained from a calculation of the two-proton spectral function of $^{16}$O where long-range and short-range correlations are consistently included. The comparison of results obtained in different kinematics confirms that resolution of different final states in the $^{16}$O(${\vec e},e'{\vec p}p$)$^{14}$C reaction may act as a filter to disentangle and separately investigate the reaction processes due to short-range correlations and two-body currents and indicates that measurements of the components of the outgoing proton polarization may offer good opportunities to study short-range correlations.
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C. Giusti, F. D. Pacati. 2000-02-03. Proton recoil polarization in exclusive (e,e'pp) reactions. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.61.054617
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