n-p Short-Range Correlations from (p,2p + n) Measurements

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2002-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0206003v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 90 (2003) 042301

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Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

4 pages and 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.042301

We studied the $^{12}$C(p,2p+n) reaction at beam momenta of 5.9, 8.0 and 9.0 GeV/c. For quasielastic (p,2p) events we reconstructed {\bf p_f} the momentum of the knocked-out proton before the reaction; {\bf p_f} was then compared (event-by-event) with {\bf p_n}, the measured, coincident neutron momentum. For $|p_n|$ > k$_F$ = 0.220 GeV/c (the Fermi momentum) a strong back-to-back directional correlation between {\bf p_f} and {\bf p_n} was observed, indicative of short-range n-p correlations. From {\bf p_n} and {\bf p_f} we constructed the distributions of c.m. and relative motion in the longitudinal direction for correlated pairs. After correcting for detection efficiency, flux attenuation and solid angle, we determined that 49 $\pm$ 13 % of events with $|p_f|$ > k_F had directionally correlated neutrons with $|p_n|$ > k$_F$. Thus short-range 2N correlations are a major source of high-momentum nucleons in nuclei.

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