Casale, P.R.; Amaro, J.E.; Barbaro, M.B. Meson-Exchange Currents in Quasielastic Electron Scattering in a Generalized Superscaling Approach. Symmetry2023, 15, 1709.
Casale, P.R.; Amaro, J.E.; Barbaro, M.B. Meson-Exchange Currents in Quasielastic Electron Scattering in a Generalized Superscaling Approach. Symmetry 2023, 15, 1709.
Casale, P.R.; Amaro, J.E.; Barbaro, M.B. Meson-Exchange Currents in Quasielastic Electron Scattering in a Generalized Superscaling Approach. Symmetry2023, 15, 1709.
Casale, P.R.; Amaro, J.E.; Barbaro, M.B. Meson-Exchange Currents in Quasielastic Electron Scattering in a Generalized Superscaling Approach. Symmetry 2023, 15, 1709.
Abstract
We present a model that incorporates the effect of two-body currents in quasielastic electron-nucleus scattering within the framework of a consistent superscaling formalism. This is achieved by defining an averaged single-nucleon hadronic tensor based on the 1p1h matrix element of the one-body current plus meson-exchange currents (MEC). The consistent treatment of one- and two-body currents in our model enables the calculation of exchange current effects in the kinematical region where the Fermi gas response is zero, but not the scaling function. The effect of MEC is consistently taken into account when extracting the phenomenological scaling function from electron scattering data. With this model, we investigate the effect of MEC on the response functions taking into account the effective mass of the nucleon, and examine the consequences it has on the inclusive (e,e′) cross section. We find that 1p1h MEC deplete the quasielastic transverse response, while they not alter significantly the scaling behavior of (e,e′) data.
Keywords
superscaling; quasielastic electron scattering; meson-exchange currents, relativistic mean field
Subject
Physical Sciences, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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