Abstract
We present measurements of the electron helicity asymmetry in quasi-elastic proton knockout from 2H and 12C nuclei by polarized electrons. This asymmetry depends on the fifth structure function, is antisymmetric with respect to the scattering plane, and vanishes in the absence of final-state interactions, and thus it provides a sensitive tool for their study. Our kinematics cover the full range in off-coplanarity angle ϕpq, with a polar angle θpq coverage up to about 8°. The missing energy resolution enabled us to determine the asymmetries for knock-out resulting in different states of the residual 11B system. We find that the helicity asymmetry for p-shell knockout from 12C depends on the final state of the residual system and is relatively large (up to ≈0.16), especially at low missing momentum. It is considerably smaller (up to ≈0.01) for s-shell knockout from both 12C and 2H. The data for 2H are in very good agreement with theoretical calculations, while the predictions for 12C exhibit differences with respect to the data.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 136798 |
Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
Volume | 824 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 10 Jan 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank the Mainz Microtron operators and technical crew for the excellent operation of the accelerator. This work is supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grants 390/15 , 951/19 ) of the Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences, by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Spaces, by the PAZY Foundation (Grant 294/18 ), by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Collaborative Research Center 1044 ), by the U.S. National Science Foundation ( PHY-1812382 ), by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BS) as part of the joint program with the NSF (grant 2017630 ), and by the Croatian Science Foundation Project No. 1680 . We acknowledge the financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P1–0102 ).
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