Published September 1, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Approach to color transparency as a means of determining hadronic distribution amplitudes

  • 1. Physics Department, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (USA)

Description

We calculate isolated, wide-angle, semi-inclusive meson production in high-energy electron scattering off nucleons within a nucleus. The nuclear medium is a filter, eliminating mesons produced with a quark and antiquark separated farther than some distance dependent on the kinematics and the size of the nucleus. The precise result depends on integrals over meson distribution amplitudes with end-point cutoffs determined by the nuclear filter. The dependence of meson production on the nucleus and kinematics gives direct information on the meson short-distance wave function. We also comment on how one may use the same process to study the distribution functions of the nucleon

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
5
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1377-1384
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA