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Relativistic effects in proton-induced deuteron break-up at intermediate energies with forward emission of a fast proton pair

L. P. Kaptari, B. Kampfer, S. S. Semikh, S. M. Dorkin

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0212062

Abstract

Recent data on the reaction pD -> (pp) n with a fast forward pp pair with very small excitation energy is analyzed within a covariant approach based on the Bethe-Salpeter formalism. It is demonstrated that the minimum non-relativistic amplitude is completely masked by relativistic effects, such as Lorentz boost and the negative-energy P components in the 1S0 Bethe-Salpeter amplitude of the pp pair.

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