A recent experiment by D. Bhetuwal et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 082301 (2021)] used the $(e,e^{\prime }p)$ reaction on ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}$ to search for the effects of color transparency (the absence of final-state interactions). Color transparency was said to be ruled out. Observing the effects of color transparency depends on the ability of a putative point-like-configuration (PLC), formed in a high-momentum transfer coherent reaction, to escape the nucleus without expanding its size. We study the expansion aspect of color transparency using superconformal baryon-meson symmetry and light-front holographic QCD. A new formalism is obtained and used to analyze the recent experiment. The resulting conclusion is that effects of expansion would not be sufficiently significant in causing final-state interactions to occur. Therefore, we conclude that a PLC was not formed. This means that the Feynman mechanism involving virtual photon absorption on a single high-momentum quark is responsible for the high-momentum electromagnetic form factor of the proton.

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• Lepton induced nuclear reactions
• QCD in nuclear reactions
• Protons
• Form factors