Polarization transfer observables for quasielastic proton-nucleus scattering in terms of a complete Lorentz invariant representation of the NN scattering matrix

B. I.S. van der Ventel, G. C. Hillhouse, P. R. De Kock, S. J. Wallace

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Abstract

For the calculation of polarization transfer observables for quasielastic scattering of protons on nuclei, a formalism in the context of the relativistic plane wave impulse approximation is developed, in which the interaction matrix is expanded in terms of a complete set of 44 independent invariant amplitudes. A boson-exchange model is used to predict the 39 amplitudes that were omitted in the formerly used five-term parameterization, the SPVAT (scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial-vector, tensor) form of the nucleon-nucleon scattering matrix. Use of the complete set of amplitudes eliminates the arbitrariness of the five-term representation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064618
Pages (from-to)14
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume60
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 1999

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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