Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1993-05-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
(To appear in the proceedings of the Workshop on Future Directions in Particle and Nuclear Physics at Multi-GeV Hadron Facilit
Scientific paper
We introduce a data analysis procedure for color transparency experiments which is considerably less model dependent than the transparency ratio method. The new method is based on fitting the shape of the A dependence of the nuclear cross section at fixed momentum transfer to determine the effective attenuation cross section for hadrons propagating through the nucleus. The hard scattering cross section is then determined directly from the data. We apply this procedure to the Brookhaven experiment of Carroll et al and find that it clearly shows color transparency: the effective attenuation cross section in events with momentum transfer $Q^2$ is approximately $40\ mb\ (2.2\ GeV^2/Q^2)$. The fit to the data also supports the idea that the hard scattering inside the nuclear medium is closer to perturbative QCD predictions than is the scattering of isolated protons in free space. We discuss the application of our approach to electroproduction experiments.
Jain Pankaj
Ralston John P.
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