PITFALLS IN LOOKING FOR COLOR TRANSPARENCY AT INTERMEDIATE ENERGIES

The problems and uncertainties in the search for color transparency at intermediate Q2 are considered. We show that conventional (optical) m odel [distorted wave impulse approximation (DWIA)] predicts a substant ial change of the transparency, T, with Q2 in the kinematics of the NE -18 (e, e'p) experiment, while the color transparency phenomenon may l ead to nearly Q2 independent T. In the case of A(p, 2p) reaction we de monstrate that the conventional optical model well describes the 1 GeV A(p, 2p) data but not the transparency observed at higher energies. W e find also that DWIA (with or without color transparency) predicts st rong dependence of T on the momentum of the struck nucleon which is co nsistent with the pattern of the Brookhaven National Laboratory A(p, 2 p) data at p(N) = 6 GeV/c and 10 GeV/c.