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Spin-momentum correlations in quasielastic electron scattering from deuterium
I Passchier1, L D van Buuren, D Szczerba
1National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
The spin-momentum correlation parameter A(V)(ed) was measured for the 2H-->(e-->,e'p)n reaction for missing momenta up to 350 MeV/c at Q2 = 0.21 (GeV/c)(2) for quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from vector-polarized deuterium. The data give detailed information about the deuteron spin structure and are in good agreement with the results of microscopic calculations based on realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials and including various spin-dependent reaction mechanism effects. The experiment reveals in a most direct manner the effects of the D state in the deuteron ground-state wave function and shows the importance of isobar configurations for this reaction.
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