Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2002-06-03
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
To appear in the proceedings of International Symposium on Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclear and Hadron Physics (EMI 200
Scientific paper
We have developed a relativistic formalism for studying quasi-free processes from nuclei. The formalism can be applied with ease to a variety of processes and renders transparent analytical expressions for all observables. We have applied it to kaon photoproduction and to electron scattering. For the case of the kaon, we compute the recoil polarization of the lambda-hyperon and the photon asymmetry. Our results indicate that polarization observables are insensitive to relativistic, nuclear target, and distortion effects. Yet, they are sensitive to the reactive content, making them ideal tools for the study of modifications to the elementary amplitude -- such as in the production, propagation, and decay of nucleon resonances -- in the nuclear medium. For the case of the electron, we have calculated the spectral function of He-4. An observable is identified for the clean and model-independent extraction of the spectral function. Our calculations provide baseline predictions for the recently measured, but not yet fully analyzed, momentum distribution of He-4 by the A1-collaboration from Mainz. Our approach predicts momentum distributions for He-4 that rival some of the best non-relativistic calculations to date.
Abu-Raddad L. J.
Piekarewicz Jorge
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