1997/12/04 by Bernard Pire, Pire, Bernard
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9712264
to be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop: Color Transparency'97, held in Grenoble, France, June 1997
arxiv created 1997/12/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The physics observables dedicated to the study of color transparency are diverse. After a brief pedagogical introduction, we emphasize the complementarity of the nuclear filtering and color transparency concepts. The importance of quantum interferences leads to suspect pictures based on the preparation of a squeezed state of small transverse size leading to a rapid transverse expansion. The different roles of heavy and light nuclei are emphasized. The possibility of color transparency tests in the vacuum is stressed. Such a test may be quickly addressed in the virtual Compton scattering reactions at CEBAF or HERMES energies.