Quark-Hadron Picture of the Deuteron Photodisintegration

The high energy two-body photodisintegration of the deuteron is an ideal reaction for the identification of quark effects in the nuclei. In particular, the study of this reaction in the few GeV region can clarify the transition from the nucleonic degrees of freedom to the QCD picture of hadrons. The CLAS large angle spectrometer of Hall B at TJNAF allowed for the first time to measure the differential cross section for photon energy between 0.5 and 3 GeV, over all proton angles between 10 and 140 degrees in the laboratory frame. Preliminary results from the analysis of 30% of the total statistic accumulated is shown. These results are in good agreement with the available data, and are well described by the recent calculation of the deuteron photodisintegration cross section derived in the framework of the Quark Gluon String Model.