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The nucleon structure functions are studied with a special emphasis on diquark correlations inside the nucleon. Assuming a phenomenological diquark-quark model of the nucleon at the low energy hadronic scale, we calculate the leading twist…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Suzuki , T. Shigetani , H. Toki

Nucleon short-range correlations (SRCs) and the associated high-momentum tail (HMT) in its momentum distribution $n(k)$ represent a universal feature of strongly interacting Fermi systems. In nuclear matter, SRCs arise primarily from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , Yu-Gang Ma

Nucleon short-range correlations (SRCs) and their high-momentum tails (HMTs) encode key short-range dynamics in nuclei and dense matter. This review provides a concise overview of SRC features relevant to the Equation of State (EOS) of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , Yu-Gang Ma

The effect of dynamical short-range correlations on the generalized momentum distribution $n(\vec{p},\vec{Q})$ in the case of $Z=N$, $\ell$-closed shell nuclei is investigated by introducing Jastrow-type correlations in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ch. C. Moustakidis , P. Papakonstantinou , E. Mavrommatis

I present the case for studying the nature of short-range internucleon interactions with electron-scattering experiments on few-body nuclear targets. I first review what electron-scattering studies have unearthed about the nature of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-04-15 J. A. Templon

To understand the role of isospin effects on fragmentation due to the collisions of charge asymmetric nuclei, we have performed a complete systematical study using isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics model. Here simulations have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Anupriya Jain , Suneel Kumar

The relation between the nuclear EMC effect and the nucleon-nucleon short-range correlation is a hot topic in high-energy nuclear physics, ever since a peculiar linear correlation between these two phenomena discovered. In this paper, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Na-Na Ma , Tao-Feng Wang , Rong Wang

The large nucleon-nucleon scattering length, and the isospin approximate symmetry, are low energy properties of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). These entail correlations in the binding energies of light nuclei, e.g., the A=3 iso-multiplet,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-25 Sergiu Lupu , Nir Barnea , Doron Gazit

Three nucleon short range correlations~(SRCs) are one of the most elusive structures in nuclei. Their observation and the subsequent study of their internal makeup will have a significant impact on our understanding of the dynamics of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Misak M. Sargsian , Donal B. Day , Leonid L. Frankfurt , Mark I. Strikman

The dispersive optical model (DOM) as presently implemented can investigate the isospin (nucleon asymmetry) dependence of the Hartree-Fock-like potential relevant for nucleons near the Fermi energy. Data constraints indicate that a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 R. J. Charity , W. H. Dickhoff , L. G. Sobotka , S. J. Waldecker

Recent studies have shown that the per-nucleon number of Short-Range Correlated (SRC) pairs in nuclei and the strength of the EMC effect are linearly correlated, increasing from light nuclei up to iron and then saturating. This paper shows…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-01 B. Schmookler , M. Duer , A. Schmidt , S. Gilad , L. B. Weinstein , E. Piasetzky , O. Hen

We extend the QCD Parton Model analysis using a factorized nuclear structure model incorporating individual nucleons and pairs of correlated nucleons. Our analysis of high-energy data from lepton Deep-Inelastic Scattering, Drell-Yan and W/Z…

We explore the EMC effect of gluons through heavy quark production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and the nucleon-nucleon short range correlation (SRC) from sub-threshold photoproduction of the $J/\psi$. Applying an effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 Wei Wang , Ji Xu , Xing-Hua Yang , Shuai Zhao

We show that the strong dependence of the amplitude for $NN$ hard scattering on the collision energy can be used to magnify the effects of short range nucleon correlations in quasielastic $pd$ scattering. Under specific kinematical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 L. Frankfurt , E. Piasetsky , M. Sargsyan , M. Strikman

We summarize recent progress in the studies of the short-rang correlations (SRC) in nuclei in high energy electron and hadron nucleus scattering and suggest directions for the future high energy studies aimed at establishing detailed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-12 Leonid Frankfurt , Misak Sargsian , Mark Strikman

After reviewing our microscopic approach to nuclear and neutron-rich matter, we focus on how nucleon-nucleon scattering is impacted by the presence of a dense hadronic medium, with special emphasis on the case where neutron and proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesca Sammarruca

Novel processes probing the decay of nucleus after removal of a nucleon with momentum larger than Fermi momentum by hard probes finally proved unambiguously the evidence for long sought presence of short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Leonid Frankfurt , Misak Sargsian , Mark Strikman

Isospin-dependent nuclear forces play a fundamental role in nuclear structure. In relativistic models of nuclear structure constructed at the quark level these isovector nuclear forces affect the u and d quarks differently, leading to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 I. C. Cloët , W. Bentz , A. W. Thomas

Atomic nuclei are held together by the strong nuclear force acting between protons and neutrons (nucleons). While the long range, averaged part of this force is well described by the nuclear shell model, the short-range and tensor…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-14 Or Hen , Holly Szumila-Vance , Lawrence Weinstein

We study the one-body momentum distribution at different densities in nuclear matter, with special emphasis on its components at high momentum. Explicit calculations for finite neutron-proton asymmetry, based on the ladder self-consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 A. Rios , A. Polls , W. H. Dickhoff