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Title Measurement of nuclear transparency ratios for protons and neutrons
Authors Meytal Duer, O. Hen, Eliazer Piasetzky, Lawrence Weinstein, Axel Schmidt, Igor Korover, Erez Cohen, Hayk Hakobyan
JLAB number JLAB-PHY-19-3007
LANL number arXiv:1811.01823
Other number DOE/OR/23177-4754
Document Type(s) (Journal Article) 
Associated with EIC: No
Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding: No
Funding Source: Nuclear Physics (NP)
 

Journal
Compiled for Physics Letters B
Volume 797
Page(s) 134792
Refereed
Publication Abstract: This paper presents, for the first time, measurements of neutron transparency ratios for nuclei relative to C measured using the (e,e'n) reaction, spanning measured neutron momenta of 1.4 to 2.4 GeV/c. The transparency ratios were extracted in two kinematical regions, corresponding to knockout of mean-field nucleons and to the breakup of Short-Range Correlated nucleon pairs. The extracted neutron transparency ratios are consistent with each other for the two measured kinematical regions and agree with the proton transparencies extracted from new and previous (e,e'p) measurements, including those from neutron-rich nuclei such as lead. The data also agree with and confirm the Glauber approximation that is commonly used to interpret experimental data. The nuclear-mass-dependence of the extracted transparencies scales as A^{\alpha} with {\alpha} = -0.289 {\pm} 0.007, which is consistent with nuclear-surface dominance of the reactions.
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Group: Hall B
Document: pdf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.039
Accepted Manuscript: 1-s2.0-S0370269319304964-main.pdf
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