Using branching processes in nuclei to reveal dynamics of large-angle, two-body scattering

Abstract

We demonstrate that hard branching 2\to 3 particle processes with nuclei provide an effective way to determine the momentum transfers needed for effects of point-like configurations to dominate large angle 2\to 2 processes. In contrast with previously proposed approaches, the discussed reaction allows the effects of the transverse size of configurations to be decoupled from effects of the space-time evolution of these configurations.

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, expanded version published in Physics Letters B