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Short-range correlations and momentum distributions in mirror nuclei 3H and 3He

Nuclear Theory 2023-08-09 v1

Abstract

Motivated by recent high-energy electron and 3H\rm ^3H and 3He\rm ^3He nuclei scattering experiment in Jefferson Lab (Nature 609, 41 (2022)), the short-range correlations (SRCs) between nucleon pairs for 3-nucleon systems are microscopically studied using realistic NNNN 2-body interaction and two-Gaussian type NNNNNN 3-body interaction. The wave functions of both 3H\rm ^3H and 3He\rm ^3He are obtained by solving 3-body Schr\"{o}dinger equations using Gaussian expansion method (GEM). The differences of one-nucleon and nucleon-nucleon momentum distributions between 3H\rm ^3H and 3He\rm ^3He are analyzed in detail. The results show that the percentages of pnpn-SRC pairs are significantly enhanced as compared with those of nn(pp)nn(pp)-SRC ones in 3H\rm ^3H and 3He\rm ^3He nuclei, which is consistent with the experimental findings.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14592,
  title  = {Short-range correlations and momentum distributions in mirror nuclei 3H and 3He},
  author = {Qi Meng and Ziyang Lu and Chang Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14592},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. C