Particle Physics Seminar: Scattering in inverse kinematics and post-selection for the study of Short-Range Correlations

Julian Kahlbow, MIT & TAU

25 November 2021, 10:00 
Shenkar Physics Building, Melamed Hall 006 
Particle Physics Seminar

Abstract:

Understanding the structure of strongly-interacting quantum mechanical systems such as atomic nuclei is a formidable challenge in physics. We recently demonstrated the feasibility to access nucleon-nucleon Short-Range Correlations (SRCs) in nuclei using hadronic probes in inverse kinematics. The experiment was carried out at the JINR (Russia), a 12C beam at 48 GeV/c impinged on a liquid hydrogen target and the reaction products were measured kinematically complete. At first, by measuring the fragment in the 12C(p,2p)11B reaction limitations posed by final-state interactions are overcome. I will show that the reaction probes single nucleon properties in a distinct single-step knockout reaction taking advantage of post-selection. The extracted nuclear ground-state distributions are in agreement with theoretical calculations. We probe SRCs in the same way by the break up of SRC nucleon pairs in 12C(p,2pN )10B/10Be reactions. This experimental technique opens the pathway for SRC studies in short-lived nuclei at upcoming accelerator facilities like FAIR (Germany). I will discuss our future experimental program to study SRCs at GSI/FAIR and JINR

 

 

Seminar Organizers: Dr. Michael Geller & Dr. Adi Ashkanzi

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