Probing short-range nucleon-nucleon interactions with an electron-ion collider
We derive the cross section for exclusive vector meson production in high-energy deeply inelastic scattering off a deuteron target that disintegrates into a proton and a neutron carrying large relative momentum in the final state. This cross section can be expressed in terms of a novel gluon transit...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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7 April 2016
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Physical review
Year: 2016, Jahrgang: 93, Heft: 4 |
| ISSN: | 2469-9993 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045202 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045202 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045202 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Gerald A. Miller, Matthew D. Sievert, Raju Venugopalan |
| Zusammenfassung: | We derive the cross section for exclusive vector meson production in high-energy deeply inelastic scattering off a deuteron target that disintegrates into a proton and a neutron carrying large relative momentum in the final state. This cross section can be expressed in terms of a novel gluon transition generalized parton distribution (T-GPD); the hard scale in the final state makes the T-GPD sensitive to the short-distance nucleon-nucleon interaction. We perform a toy model computation of this process in a perturbative framework and discuss the time scales that allow the separation of initial- and final-state dynamics in the T-GPD. We outline the more general computation based on the factorization suggested by the toy computation: In particular, we discuss the relative role of “pointlike” and “geometric” Fock configurations that control the parton dynamics of short-range nucleon-nucleon scattering. With the aid of exclusive J/ψ production data at the Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator at DESY, as well as elastic nucleon-nucleon cross sections, we estimate rates for exclusive deuteron photodisintegration at a future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Our results, obtained using conservative estimates of EIC integrated luminosities, suggest that center-of-mass energies sNN∼12GeV2 of the neutron-proton subsystem can be accessed. We argue that the high energies of the EIC can address outstanding dynamical questions regarding the short-range quark-gluon structure of nuclear forces by providing clean gluon probes of such “knockout” exclusive reactions in light and heavy nuclei. |
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| ISSN: | 2469-9993 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045202 |