REALISTIC STUDY OF THE NUCLEAR TRANSPARENCY AND THE DISTORTED MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE SEMI-INCLUSIVE PROCESS ⁴HE(E,E′P)X

The nuclear transparency and the distorted momentum distributions of 4He in the semi-inclusive process 4He(e,e'p)X are calculated within the Glauber multiple scattering approach using for the first time realistic four-body variational wave functions embodying central and non-central nucleon-nucleon (N-N) correlations. The contributions from N-N correlations and from Glauber multiple scattering are taken into account exactly to all orders. It is shown that non-central correlations significantly affect both the transparency and the distorted momentum distributions; as a matter of fact: i) the small (approx 3%) value of the effect of correlations on the transparency results from an appreciable cancellation between the short-range central repulsive correlations and the intermediate-range attractive correlations, whose magnitude is significantly affected by the non-central forces, and ii) the effect of Glauber final state interactions on the momentum distribution is reduced by the inclusion of tensor correlations.

28 pages, Revtex, 11 eps figures. Slightly revised version; to appear in Phys. Rev. C