High energy three-body breakup of three-nucleon systems

Abstract

In addition to the high energy approximation this study exploited the exclusive nature of the process under investigation to gain more information about the SRCs.The description of the exclusive 3 He(e, e'NN)N reaction has been done using the formalism of the nuclear decay function, which is a practically unexplored quantity and is related to the conventional spectral function through the integration of the phase space of the recoil nucleons. Detailed investigation showed that the decay function clearly exhibits the main features of two-and three-nucleon correlations.Four highly practical types of SRCs in 3 He nucleus were discussed in great detail for different orders of the final state re-interactions using the decay function as an unique identifying tool.The overall conclusion in this dissertation suggests that the investigation of the decay function opens up a completely new venue in studies of short range nuclear properties.vi