Long Range Outlook for Short-Range Correlations
Abstract
Short range correlated (SRC) N N pairs are pairs of nucleons with high relative momentum (prel > kF where kF ~ 250 MeV/c is the Fermi momentum in medium to heavy nuclei) and lower center of mass momentum. The motivation for studying SRC pairs ranges from a desire to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the many-body nuclear wave-function at high-resolution to searching for explicit QCD-dynamics effects within the nuclear medium, not to mention connections to many other open problems in nuclear physics. Exploring short-range correlations was one of the physics motivations for building CEBAF (now Jefferson Lab). Scientists used the high luminosity and high energy of this cutting-edge machine to find kinematics that cleanly showed the signals of short-range correlations. This paved the way in the last two decades for tremendous progress understanding these correlations. This paper reviews recent progress and highlights outstanding questions and areas that need further study.
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@article{arxiv.2601.09568,
title = {Long Range Outlook for Short-Range Correlations},
author = {Nadia Fomin and Or Hen and Julian Kahlbow and Dien Nguyen and Jackson Pybus and Noemi Rocco and Misak Sargsian and Sandra Nathaly Santiesteban and Ronen Weiss and Douglas W. Higinbotham and Lawrence Weinstein and Devi Adhikari and Hisham Albataineh and Massimiliano Alvioli and Lorenzo Andreoli and John Arrington and Carlos Ayerbe Gayoso and A. B. Balantekin and Carlos Bertulani and Hem Bhatt and Sudip Bhattarai and William J. Briscoe and Sayak Chatterjee and Hector Chinchay and E. O. Cohn and Wim Cosyn and Silviu Covrig Dusa and Natalya Dashyan and Bhesha Raj Devkota and Meytal Duer and Burcu Duran and Mostafa Elaasar and Cristiano Fanelli and Muhammad Farooq and Ishara P. Fernando and Caleb Fogler and Filippo Fornetti and Tobias Frederico and Daniel Galaviz and Dave Gaskell and Prakassh Gautam and Probir Ghoshal and Tyler J. Hague and Jens-Ole Hansen and Florian Hauenstein and Chueng-Ryong Ji and H. S. Jo and Muhammad Junaid and Dustin Keller and T. V. Kolar and Igor Korover and Andrea Lagni and Chhetra Lama and Shujie Li and Valery E. Lyubovitskij and Ralph Marinaro and Malek Mazouz and Michael McCaughan and Bryan McKinnon and Gerald Miller and Taya Mineeva and Arthur Mkrtchyan and Hamlet Mkrtchyan and Peter Monaghan and Casey Morean and Sooriyaarachchilage Aruni Nadeeshani and Gunawardhana Waduge Nuwan Chaminda and Emanuele Pace and Bishnu Pandey and Valerii Panin and Parshkin and Igor and Stefanos Paschalis and Saori Pastore and Maria Patsyuk and Churamani Paudel and Marina Petri and Eliazer Piasetzky and Jiwan Poudel and Hang Qi and Sagar Regmi and Matteo Rinaldi and Jose Luis Rodriguez-Sánchez and Dmitry Romanov and Giovanni Salmé and Axel Schmidt and Mitra H. Shabestari and Albert Shahinyan and Abhyuday Sharda and Alexander Somov and Igor Strakovsky and Holly Szumila-Vance and V. Tadevosyan and Buddhiman Tamang and Hakob Voskanyan and Ron Wagner and Uditha Weerasinghe and Natalie Wright and E. A. Wrightson and Manuel Xarepe and Zhihong Ye and Bo Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09568},
year = {2026}
}