Extracting Nuclear Transparency from p-A Cross sections

Frankel, Sherman; Frati, William; Walet, Niels R.

Extracting Nuclear Transparency from p-A Cross sections

Authors

Frankel, Sherman

Frati, William

Walet, Niels R.

Description

We study nuclear structure effects on the transparency in high transverse momentum $(p,2p)$ and $(e,e'p)$ reactions. We show that in the DWIA-eikonal approximation, even when correlations are included, one can get a factorized expression for the transparency. This depends only on the average nucleon density $ρ(r)$ and a correlation function. We develop a technique to include correlations in a Monte-Carlo Glauber type calculation. We compare calculations of $T$ using the eikonal formalism and a continuous density, with a Monte Carlo method based on discrete nucleons.
22 pages, 9 postscript figures. LaTeX with epsf style