High-Precision Studies of theH3e(e,e′p)Reaction at the Quasielastic Peak

Precision studies of the reaction ${}^3\mathrm{He}\left({e,e}^{\prime }p\right)$ using the three-spectrometer facility at the Mainz microtron MAMI are presented. All data are for quasielastic kinematics at $|\overrightarrow{q}|=685\mathrm{}\mathrm{MeV}/c$. Absolute cross sections were measured at three electron kinematics. For the measured missing momenta range from 10 to $165\mathrm{MeV}/c$, no strength is observed for missing energies higher than 20 MeV. Distorted momentum distributions were extracted for the two-body breakup and the continuum. The longitudinal and transverse nature of the cross sections is well described by a widely used prescription of the off-shell electron-nucleon cross section. The results are compared to modern three-body calculations and to previous data.