Onset of Asymptotic Scaling in Deuteron Photodisintegration

P. Rossi, M. Mirazita, F. Ronchetti, E. De Sanctis, G. Adams, P. Ambrozewicz, E. Anciant, M. Anghinolfi, B. Asavapibhop, G. Audit, H. Avakian, H. Bagdasaryan (+194 others)
2005 Physical Review Letters  
We investigate the transition from the nucleon-meson to quark-gluon description of the strong interaction using the photon energy dependence of the d(γ,p)n differential cross section for photon energies above 0.5 GeV and center-of-mass proton angles between 30^∘ and 150^∘. A possible signature for this transition is the onset of cross section s^-11 scaling with the total energy squared, s, at some proton transverse momentum, P_T. The results show that the scaling has been reached for proton
more » ... sverse momentum above about 1.1 GeV/c. This may indicate that the quark-gluon regime is reached above this momentum.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.012301 pmid:15698073 fatcat:whzl3ubxtvd63jrxqu34rksqby