Effects of the final state interaction in the electrodisintegration of the deuteron at intermediate and high energies

The role of final state interactions (FSIs) in the inclusive quasielastic disintegration of the deuteron is investigated treating the two-nucleon final state within the exact continuum solutions of the nonrelativistic Schrodinger equation, as well as within the Glauber multiple-scattering approach. It is shown that for values of the Bjorken scaling variable x(Bj) similar or equal to 1 both approaches provide similar results, except for the case x(Bj) greater than or similar to 1, where they appreciably disagree. It is demonstrated that present experimental data, which are mostly limited to a region of four-momentum transfer [Q(2) less than or similar to 4 (GeV/c)(2)] where the center-of-mass energy of the final state is below the pion threshold production, can be satisfactorily reproduced by an approach based on an exact solution of the Schrodinger equation and not by the Glauber approach.