Evidence for Color Fluctuations in Hadrons from Coherent Nuclear Diffraction}

Abstract

A QCD-based treatment of projectile size fluctuations is used to compute inelastic diffractive cross sections ${\sigma }_{diff}$ for coherent hadron-nuclear processes. We find that fluctuations near the average size give the major contribution to the cross section with $\le few\%$ contribution from small size configurations. The computed values of ${\sigma }_{diff}$ are consistent with the limited available data. The importance of coherent diffraction studies for a wide range of projectiles for high energy Fermilab fixed target experiments is emphasized. The implications of these significant color fluctuations for relativistic heavy ion collisions are discussed.

Report number DOE/ER 40427-13-N93 11 pages, 3 figures available from author Miller

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