A non factorized calculation of the process ^3He(e,e'p)^2H at medium energies

TL;DR

This paper presents a non-factorized, relativistic calculation of the ^3He(e,e'p)^2H process at medium energies, highlighting the importance of multiple rescattering effects and the breakdown of factorization at high missing momentum.

Contribution

It introduces a fully covariant, non-factorized approach using realistic wave functions and the Eikonal Approximation to analyze the process, avoiding non-relativistic simplifications.

Findings

Left-right asymmetry depends on multiple rescattering effects.

Factorization approximation breaks down at high missing momentum.

Results agree with recent JLab experimental data.

Abstract

The exclusive process ^3He(e,e^\prime p)^2H has been analyzed using realistic few-body wave functions corresponding to the AV18 interaction and treating the final state interaction (FSI) within the Eikonal Approximation to describe the multiple rescattering of the struck nucleon with the nucleons of the spectator two-nucleon system. Calculations have been performed in momentum space so that the nucleon electromagnetic current could be left in the fully covariant form avoiding by this way non relativistic reductions and the factorization approximation. The results of calculations, which are compared with recent JLab experimental data, show that the left-right asymmetry exhibit a clear dependence upon the multiple scattering in the final state and demonstrate the breaking down of the factorization approximation at \phi=0 i.e. for "negative" and large \geq 300MeV/c values of the missing momentum.