QCD Rescattering and High Energy Two-Body Photodisintegration of the Deuteron

Leonid L. Frankfurt, Gerald A. Miller, Misak M. Sargsian, Mark I. Strikman
2000 Physical Review Letters  
Photon absorption by a quark in one nucleon followed by its high momentum transfer interaction with a quark in the other may produce two final-state nucleons with high relative momentum. We sum the relevant quark rescattering diagrams, to show that the scattering amplitude depends on a convolution between the large angle pn scattering amplitude, the hard photon-quark interaction vertex and the low-momentum deuteron wave function. The computed absolute values of the cross section are in reasonable agreement with the data.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.84.3045 pmid:11019008 fatcat:zwnxkw7vtzbtnluvtfqler7dza