Structure of nuclei in dileptons production in proton-nucleus scattering

TL;DR

This paper presents a quantum mechanical model for dilepton production in proton-nucleus scattering, highlighting the importance of nuclear structure and interactions, and shows good agreement with experimental data.

Contribution

A novel quantum mechanical model describing nuclear scattering and dilepton production, emphasizing nuclear structure's role and sensitivity to nuclear potentials.

Findings

Calculated spectra agree with experimental data.

Incoherent processes dominate dilepton production.

Nuclear structure significantly influences cross sections.

Abstract

We investigate production of electron-positron pairs (dileptons) in the scattering of protons off nuclei. Focus is directed on clarifying role of nuclear interactions which make basis in mechanisms of scattering process and structure of nuclei. For that, we constructed a new model of production of dileptons, where scattering of nuclei and their structure are described on the basis of quantum mechanics. Cross sections of dilepton production are calculated in the scattering of protons on \isotope[9]{B} at energy of proton beam of 2.1~GeV. Tendency of the calculated full spectrum is in good agreement with experimental data of DLS Collaboration. Contribution of incoherent processes has a leading role in production of dileptons in comparison with coherent one. In our model calculated cross section of dileptons is sensitive to nuclear part of potential of interactions between proton and nucleus in scattering. Influence of structure of nucleus on calculations of cross sections of production of dileptons is essential. This result provides save basis for new opportunity to extract new information about structure of nuclei, nuclear part of potential from experimental data of dileptons at studied energies of proton beam.