Abstract
Final-state interactions in the response of a many-body system to an external probe delivering large momentum are normally described using the eikonal approximation, for the trajectory of the struck particle, and the frozen approximation, for the positions of the spectators. We propose a generalization of this scheme, in which the initial momentum of the struck particle is explicitly taken into account. Numerical calculations of the nuclear matter response at $1<|\mathbf{q}|<2\mathrm{GeV}/c$ show that the inclusion of this momentum dependence leads to a sizable effect in the low-energy tail. Possible implications for the analysis of existing electron-nucleus scattering data are discussed.
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