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Clasie B, Qian X, Arrington J, Asaturyan R, Benmokhtar F, Boeglin W, Bosted P, Bruell A, Christy ME, Chudakov E, Cosyn W, Dalton MM, Daniel A, Day D, Dutta D, El Fassi L, Ent R, Fenker HC, Ferrer J, Fomin N, Gao H, Garrow K, Gaskell D, Gray C, Horn T, Huber GM, Jones MK, Kalantarians N, Keppel CE, Kramer K, Larson A, Li Y, Liang Y, Lung AF, Malace S, Markowitz P, Matsumura A, Meekins DG, Mertens T, Miller GA, Miyoshi T, Mkrtchyan H, Monson R, Navasardyan T, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Okayasu Y, Opper AK, Perdrisat C, Punjabi V, Rauf AW, Rodriquez VM, Rohe D, Ryckebusch J, Seely J, Segbefia E, Smith GR, Strikman M, Sumihama M, Tadevosyan V, Tang L, Tvaskis V, Villano A, Vulcan WF, Wesselmann FR, Wood SA, Yuan L, Zheng XC. Measurement of nuclear transparency for the A(e,e'pi+) reaction. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 99:242502. [PMID: 18233444 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.242502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2007] [Revised: 09/23/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
We have measured the nuclear transparency of the A(e,e'pi+) process in 2H, 12C, 27Al, 63Cu, and 197Au targets. These measurements were performed at the Jefferson Laboratory over a four momentum transfer squared range Q2=1.1 to 4.7 (GeV/c)2. The nuclear transparency was extracted as the super-ratio of (sigmaA/sigmaH) from data to a model of pion-electroproduction from nuclei without pi-N final-state interactions. The Q2 and atomic number dependence of the nuclear transparency both show deviations from traditional nuclear physics expectations and are consistent with calculations that include the quantum chromodynamical phenomenon of color transparency.
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Affiliation(s)
- B Clasie
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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