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Isospin-symmetry implications for nuclear two-body distributions and short-range correlations

Nuclear Theory 2022-12-08 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We study the implications of isospin symmetry in nuclear systems on two-body distributions and derive relations between different densities or momentum distributions of a given nucleus or of different nuclei in the same isospin multiplet. A connection between neutrinoless double beta decay transition of mirror nuclei and two-body densities is also obtained. The relations are numerically verified by means of quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We discuss the relevance of these results to the analysis of nuclear short-range correlations and also show that isospin symmetry allows us to extract information about the spectator nucleons when a short-range correlated pair is formed.

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@article{arxiv.2206.14235,
  title  = {Isospin-symmetry implications for nuclear two-body distributions and short-range correlations},
  author = {R. Weiss and A. Lovato and R. B. Wiringa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.14235},
  year   = {2022}
}