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Nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions in A <= 12 nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2015-06-17 v2

Abstract

We report variational Monte Carlo calculations of single-nucleon momentum distributions for A <= 12 nuclei and nucleon-pair and nucleon-cluster momentum distributions for A <= 8. The wave functions have been generated for a Hamiltonian containing the Argonne v18 two-nucleon and Urbana X three-nucleon potentials. The single-nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions exhibit universal features attributable to the one-pion-exchange tensor interaction. The single-nucleon distributions are broken down into proton and neutron components and spin-up and spin-down components where appropriate. The nucleon-pair momentum distributions are given separately for pp and pn pairs. The nucleon-cluster momentum distributions include dp in 3He, tp and dd in 4He, alpha-d in 6Li, alpha-t in 7Li, and alpha-alpha in 8Be. Detailed tables are provided on-line for download.

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@article{arxiv.1309.3794,
  title  = {Nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions in A <= 12 nuclei},
  author = {R. B. Wiringa and R. Schiavilla and Steven C. Pieper and J. Carlson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3794},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 17 figures, Submitted to Physical Review C