Inclusive and Exclusive Scatterings from Tensor Polarized Deuteron

TL;DR

This paper explores how tensor polarized deuteron targets in high-Q^2 electroproduction reactions can reveal insights into short-range nuclear interactions and phenomena like color transparency.

Contribution

It introduces the use of tensor polarized deuterons to isolate short-range two-nucleon configurations and examines their effects in relativistic scattering and final state interactions.

Findings

Tensor polarization isolates short-range nucleon pairs.

Sensitive probes for color transparency phenomena.

Enhanced understanding of high-Q^2 nuclear reactions.

Abstract

The possibility of using a tensor polarized deuteron target in electroproduction reactions creates new opportunities for studying different phenomena related to the short-range hadronic and nuclear physics. The use of tensor polarized deuteron allows to isolate smaller than average inter-nucleon distances for the bound two-nucleon system. In this report we consider several of high $Q^2$ reactions which are particularly sensitive to the short-range two-nucleon configurations in the deuteron. The one is the relativistic dynamics of electron-bound-nucleon scattering which can be studied in both inclusive and exclusive reactions, other is the strong final state interaction in close proximity of two nucleons that can be used as a sensitive probe for color-transparency phenomena.