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Nuclei close to the neutron drip line are described employing an interaction model which is based on the low-momentum interaction $V_{lowk}$. This effective two-body interaction which is determined to reproduce the nucleon-nucleon (NN)…
The recent x>1 (e,e') and correlation experiments at momentum transfer Q^2 \ge 2 GeV^2 confirm presence of short-range correlations (SRC) in nuclei mostly build of nucleons. Recently we evaluated in a model independent way the dominant…
Results of electron-induced one- and two-nucleon hard knockout reactions, $A(e,e'p)$ and $A(e,e'pN)$, in kinematics sensitive to nuclear short-range correlations, are studied using the nuclear contact formalism. A relation between the…
Recently, a method was developed for implementing arbitrary short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations in Monte Carlo sampled nuclei (as well as deformations of the 1-body nuclear density). We use this method to implement realistic 2-body…
We utilize the generalized contact formalism in conjunction with the Woods-Saxon mean-field description of the long-range part of the nuclear wave function to assess the relative prevalence of short-range correlation pairs within atomic…
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A brief outlook on low-energy nuclear physics is presented. Selected recent developments in nuclear structure theory are highlighted and a few open questions are discussed.
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