Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
1995-10-27
Phys.Rev.C55:318-337,1997
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
27 pages in REVTEX, plus 22 PS figures embedded using psfig.sty (included), uuencoded
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.55.318
We present calculations of the reaction $A(e,e^\prime \pi N)B$ in the distorted wave impulse approximation. The reaction allows for the study of the production process in the nuclear medium without being obscured by the details of nuclear transition densities. First, a pion electroproduction operator suitable for nuclear calculations is obtained by extending the Blomqvist-Laget photoproduction operator to the virtual photon case. The operator is gauge invariant, unitary, reference frame independent, and describes the existing data reasonably well. Then it is applied in nuclei to predict nuclear cross sections under a variety of kinematic arrangements. Issues such as the effects of gauge-fixing, the interference of the $\Delta$ resonance with the background, sensitivities to the quadrupole component of the $\Delta$ excitation and to the electromagnetic form factors, the role of final-state interactions, are studied in detail. Methods on how to experimentally separate the various pieces in the coincidence cross section are suggested. Finally, the model is compared to a recent SLAC experiment.
Bennhold Cornelius
Lee Frank X.
Wright Louis E.
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