FIZIKA B 8 (1999) 1, 41-50

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LOOKING AT CLOSE NUCLEONS IN NUCLEI WITH HIGH-ENERGY PROBES

ELI PIASETZKY

School of Physics and Astronomy, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
E-mail: EIP@TAUPHY.TAU.AC.IL

Received 29 December 1999; Accepted 19 July 1999

Recently, we measured the reaction 12C(p,2p+n) and studied the correlation between the momenta of the struck target proton and the backward recoil neutron. We intend to continue this line of research and to measure the C(e,e'p+N) reaction at TJNAF (approved experiment E97-106). Two permanent magnetic spectrometers will be used to measure the (e,e'p) part of the reaction. We plan to add a third arm, consisting of a series of scintillation counters, to measure neutrons and protons in coincidence with the outgoing high momentum electron and proton. We choose kinematical conditions that will allow us to determine the fraction of (e,e'p) events which are associated with NN short-range correlations, as a function of the momentum of the proton in the nucleus. It will also allow us to compare between pn and pp correlated pairs in nuclei.

PACS numbers: 21.60.-n, 25.20.Dc
UDC 539.126

Keywords: nucleon-nucleon correlation, short-range correlation in nuclei, knockout reactions, high-momentum transfer reactions

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