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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

Although relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a powerful probe for studying nuclear structure, the potential influence of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations (NN-SRCs) on the initial state has remained an open question. By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Pei Li , Kai-Jia Sun , Bo Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma

Short-range correlations (SRCs) provide the link between low- and high-energy nuclear physics and can be quantified by two-nucleon densities. We present calculations of the two-nucleon densities using free-space similarity renormalization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 H. Y. Shang , R. Z. Hu , X. Y. Xu , Z. C. Xu , J. C. Pei , S. M. Wang

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Strikman

The apparent production of (multi-)strange baryons and mesons at sub-threshold energies in proton-heavy ion collisions is a consequence of short range correlations (SRC), which have recently been observed in lepton-nucleus scattering. They…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Tom Reichert , Jörg Aichelin

The influence of short-range correlations on the momentum and energy distribution of nucleons in nuclei is evaluated assuming a realistic meson-exchange potential for the nucleon-nucleon interaction. Using the Green-function approach the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 H. Müther , A. Polls , W. H. Dickhoff

The main goal of the research presented in this dissertation was to develop a theoretical model for relativistic nuclear spectral functions at high missing momenta and removal energies based on the multi-nucleon short-range correlation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Oswaldo Artiles

We develop a theoretical approach for nuclear spectral functions at high missing momenta and removal energies based on the multi-nucleon short-range correlation~(SRC) model. The approach is based on the effective Feynman diagrammatic method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Oswaldo Artiles , Misak M. Sargsian

Recent experimental data on inclusive and exclusive lepton and hadron scattering off nuclei have renewed the interest in theoretical and experimental studies of Short Range Correlations (SRC), due to the relevant impact they may have not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-15 Chiara Benedetta Mezzetti

Nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations (SRCs) induce a high momentum tail (HMT) in the single-nucleon momentum distribution function $n_{\v{k}}^J(\rho,\delta)$ in cold neutron-rich matter. While there are clear experimental evidences that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-21 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li

The past decade has provided a much clearer picture of the structure of high-momentum components in nucleons, associated with hard, short-distance interactions between pairs of nucleons. Recent Jefferson Lab data on light nuclei suggest a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-04-20 John Arrington

Short-range correlations (SRC) in asymmetric nuclei with an unusual neutron-to-proton ratio can be studied with quasi-free two-nucleon knockout processes following the collision between accelerated ions and a proton target. We derive an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-09 Sam Stevens , Jan Ryckebusch , Wim Cosyn , Andreas Waets

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

An approximate method to quantify the mass dependence of the number of two-nucleon (2N) short-range correlations (SRC) in nuclei is suggested. The proposed method relies on the concept of the "local nuclear character" of the SRC. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-24 Maarten Vanhalst , Jan Ryckebusch , Wim Cosyn

An approximate method to quantify the magnitude of the two-nucleon (2N) and three-nucleon (3N) short-range correlations (SRC) and their mass dependence is proposed. The proposed method relies on the concept of the "universality" or "local…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-24 Maarten Vanhalst , Jan Ryckebusch , Wim Cosyn

High-energy scattering processes, such as deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and quasielastic (QE) scattering provide a wealth of information about the structure of atomic nuclei. The remarkable discovery of the empirical linear relationship…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-09 J. E. Lynn , D. Lonardoni , J. Carlson , J. -W. Chen , W. Detmold , S. Gandolfi , A. Schwenk

Motivated by recent high-energy electron and $\rm ^3H$ and $\rm ^3He$ nuclei scattering experiment in Jefferson Lab (Nature 609, 41 (2022)), the short-range correlations (SRCs) between nucleon pairs for 3-nucleon systems are microscopically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Qi Meng , Ziyang Lu , Chang Xu

This article reviews our current understanding of how the internal quark structure of a nucleon bound in nuclei differs from that of a free nucleon. We focus on the interpretation of measurements of the EMC effect for valence quarks, a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-12-06 O. Hen , G. A. Miller , E. Piasetzky , L. B. Weinstein

We introduce a method to calculate the effect of short-range correlation (SRC) on the proton density distribution numerically, up to the first order of the cluster expansion, that can be used for wide range of closed shell nuclei and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-09 Tianyang Ma , Shalom Shlomo

The experiment, E08-014, in Hall-A at Jefferson Lab aims to study the short-range correlations (SRC) which are necessary to explain the nuclear strength absent in the mean field theory. The cross sections for $\mathrm{^{2}H}$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-08-26 Zhihong Ye