Inclusive inelastic electron scattering from nuclei

TL;DR

This paper reviews inclusive inelastic electron scattering from nuclei at high momentum transfer, highlighting recent experimental results and their implications for understanding nuclear structure and reaction mechanisms.

Contribution

It presents new experimental data from Jefferson Lab and discusses their significance in studying nuclear dynamics and scaling behaviors.

Findings

Observation of scaling behavior at high $Q^2$

Evidence for nucleon-nucleon correlations

Insights into reaction mechanisms and final state interactions

Abstract

Inclusive electron scattering from nuclei at large x and $Q^2$ is the result of a reaction mechanism that includes both quasi--elastic scattering from nucleons and deep inelastic scattering from the quark constituents of the nucleons. Data in this regime can be used to study a wide variety of topics, including the extraction of nuclear momentum distributions, the influence of final state interactions and the approach to $y$-scaling, the strength of nucleon-nucleon correlations, and the approach to $x$- scaling, to name a few. Selected results from the recent experiment E02-019 at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will be shown and their relevance discussed.