Slow proton production in semi-inclusive DIS off nuclei: the role of final state interaction

The effects of the final state interaction on the production of slow protons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic lepton scattering off nuclei is considered within the spectator mechanism and a realistic approach in which the rescattering in the medium of both the recoiling proton and the hadronizing nucleon debris are taken into account.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the "Fifth International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics" held at ICTP, Trieste, 22 - 26 May 200

Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations and Gribov Inelastic Shadowing in High Energy Collisions

The effects of nucleon-nucleon (NN) short range correlations (SRC) and Gribov inelastic shadowing (IS) in high energy collisions are illustrated.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at DIFFRACTION 2010, International Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics, Otranto, Italy, September 10-15, 201

On the Extraction of the Neutron Spin Structure Functions and the Gerasimov -- Drell -- Hearn Integral from 3He⃗(e⃗,e′)X^3\vec {He}(\vec e, e')X data

Nuclear effects in polarized inelastic electron scattering off polarized $^3He$ are discussed; in the kinematics of future experiments at CEBAF, Fermi motion effects are found to be much larger than in deep inelastic scattering. It is shown that improperly describing nuclear dynamics would lead to the extraction of unreliable neutron spin structure functions. On the other hand side, a simple and workable equation relating the Gerasimov -- Drell -- Hearn Integral for the neutron to the corresponding quantity for $^3He$ is proposed.Comment: 13 pages Latex including 3 postscript figure

Lepton Scattering off Few-Nucleon Systems at Medium and High Energies

The interpretation of recent Jlab experimental data on the exclusive process A(e,e'p)B off few-nucleon systems are analyzed in terms of realistic nuclear wave functions and Glauber multiple scattering theory, both in its original form and within a generalized eikonal approximation. The relevance of the exclusive process 4He(e,e'p)^3H for possible investigations of QCD effects is illustrated.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Plenary talk given by C. Ciofi degli Atti at the XX European Conference "Few Body Problems in Physics", Pisa, Italy, September 2007. To appear in Few-Body System

Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations and Six-Quark Cluster Effects in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Lepton Scattering off Few-Nucleon Systems

Semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton scattering off few-nucleon systems is investigated assuming that virtual boson absorption occurs on a hadronic cluster which can be either a two-nucleon correlated pair or a six-quark bag. In both cases the relevance of nuclear effects on forward and backward nucleon emissions is illustrated and the differences expected in the energy distribution of the emitted nucleons are analyzed both at x>1 and x<1.Comment: 17 pages, preprint INFN-ISS 94/8, September 1994. To appear in Few-Body Systems. 8 figures available by fax upon request at [email protected]

Investigation of the Neutron Form Factors by Inclusive Quasi-Elastic Scattering of Polarized Electrons off Polarized 3^{3}He: A Theoretical Overview

The theory of quasi-elastic inclusive scattering of polarized leptons off polarized $^3$He is critically reviewed and the origin of different expressions for the polarized nuclear response function appearing in the literature is explained. The sensitivity of the longitudinal asymmetry upon the neutron form factors is thoroughly investigated and the role played by the polarization angle for minimizing the proton contribution is illustrated.Comment: Phys. Rev C in press; 9 figs. (available upon request

Final state interaction in semi-inclusive DIS off nuclei

The final state interaction in DIS of leptons off a nucleus A, due to the propagation of the struck nucleon debris and its hadronization in the nuclear environment is considered. The effective cross section of such a partonic system with the nucleons of the medium and its time dependence are estimated on the basis of a model which takes into account the production of hadrons due to the breaking of the color string and to gluon radiation. It is shown that the details of the propagation of the partonic system in the nuclear environment can be thoroughly investigated by the semi-inclusive process A(e,e'(A-1))X, in which the scattered lepton is detected in coincidence with the nucleus (A-1) in low energy and momentum states. The rescattering of the struck nucleon debris with the medium damps and distorts the momentum distributions of (A-1) in a way which is very sensitive to the details of effective cross section of the debris. The total cross section of the process on ^4He, ^16O, and ^40Ca, related to the probability that after a target nucleon experiences a DIS process, the recoiling (A-1) nucleus remains intact, is evaluated, and the distorted momentum distribution of the recoiling (A-1) system is obtained. It is shown that both quantities are very sensitive to the details of the early stage of hadronization of the nucleon debris in the nuclear medium.Comment: 27 pages, 10 eps-figure