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Article

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Publication Date

1-1-2010

Abstract

We have measured the He3(e,e′pp)n reaction at an incident energy of 4.7 GeV over a wide kinematic range. We identified spectator correlated pp and pn nucleon pairs by using kinematic cuts and measured their relative and total momentum distributions. This is the first measurement of the ratio of pp to pn pairs as a function of pair total momentum ptot. For pair relative momenta between 0.3 and 0.5  GeV/c, the ratio is very small at low ptot and rises to approximately 0.5 at large ptot. This shows the dominance of tensor over central correlations at this relative momentum.

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Copyright American Physical Society Publisher final version available at http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v105/i22/e222501

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Published Citation

H. Baghdasaryan et al. [CLAS Collaboration], "Tensor Correlations Measured in 3He(e,e′pp)n," Physical Review Letters 105.22 (2010) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.222501

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.222501

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