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Jan 13 – 14, 2025
CEBAF Center
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Exclusive Electro-Disintegration of Tensor-polarized Deuterium

Jan 14, 2025, 8:50 AM
15m
F113 (CEBAF Center )

F113

CEBAF Center

Speaker

Carlos Yero (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Description

The deuteron, the most fundamental nuclear system, has a wave function predominantly characterized by the proton-neutron (pn) component. As such, it serves as a valuable tool for probing various aspects of the pn strong interaction. Studying the pn system at short distances addresses fundamental questions in nuclear dynamics, such as the relativistic description of nuclear structure, the dynamics of the repulsive core in nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions, the role of non-nucleonic degrees of freedom, and the transitions between hadrons and quarks at very short distances. Utilizing a tensor-polarized deuteron target in electro-production reactions opens up new possibilities for exploring phenomena in short-range hadronic and nuclear physics. Additionally, pn potentials like AV18 and CD-Bonn show significant differences in their high-momentum projections, which correspond to small inter-nucleon distances. Theoretical studies suggest that these differences could be identified and measured through specialized electro-disintegration experiments involving a tensor-polarized target.

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