The apparent Coulomb reacceleration of neutrons in electrodissociation of the deuteron

Abstract

We demonstrate that the final state $p$-$n$ interaction in the reaction of electrodissociation of the deuteron at large $Q^2$ in a static external field leads to the apparent reacceleration of neutrons. The shift of the neutron velocity from the velocity of the deuteron beam is related to the quantum-mechanical forward-backward asymmetry of the missing momentum distribution in the ${}^{2}H(e,e^{\prime }p)n$ scattering.

Comments: LATEX, 9 pages, 1 figure available from the authors on request, Juelich preprint KFA-IKP(TH)-1994-35