Abstract
We studied the reaction at beam momenta of 5.9, 8.0, and . For quasielastic () events , the momentum of the knocked-out proton before the reaction, was compared (event by event) with , the coincident neutron momentum. For (the Fermi momentum) a strong back-to-back directional correlation between and was observed, indicative of short-range correlations. From and we constructed the distributions of c.m. and relative motion in the longitudinal direction for correlated pairs. We also determined that of events with had directionally correlated neutrons with .
- Received 9 May 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.042301
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