TY - JOUR
T1 - Soft neutron production in DIS
T2 - A window to the final state interactions
AU - Strikman, M.
AU - Tverskoy, M. G.
AU - Zhalov, M. B.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank K. Griffioen for numerous suggestions and providing details of the E665 kinematics. We also thank L. Frankfurt, A.E.L. Dieperink and M. Sargsian for discussions. The research was supported by the DOE grant DE-FG02-93ER40771 and the ISF grant SAK 000.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Recently E-665 reported the first measurement of soft (En ≤ 10 MeV) neutron production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) off nuclei. We report the first theoretical analysis of the data. We find that the observed cross section can be quantitatively explained as due to the final state interactions (FSI) of low energy nucleons (EN ∼ 200-400 MeV) produced in the elementary μN interactions. We argue that the data indicate strong a suppression of the FSF s of fast partons (hadrons) in DIS at high energies, and that studies of the soft neutron production would provide a new sensitive probe of the dynamics of FSFs in DIS both at fixed target energies and at the HERA eA collider.
AB - Recently E-665 reported the first measurement of soft (En ≤ 10 MeV) neutron production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) off nuclei. We report the first theoretical analysis of the data. We find that the observed cross section can be quantitatively explained as due to the final state interactions (FSI) of low energy nucleons (EN ∼ 200-400 MeV) produced in the elementary μN interactions. We argue that the data indicate strong a suppression of the FSF s of fast partons (hadrons) in DIS at high energies, and that studies of the soft neutron production would provide a new sensitive probe of the dynamics of FSFs in DIS both at fixed target energies and at the HERA eA collider.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00627-9
DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00627-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4244175642
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 459
SP - 37
EP - 42
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-3
ER -