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Title: Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the 4He(e,e`pN) Triple-Coincidence Reaction

Abstract

We studied simultaneously the 4He(e,e'p), 4He(e,e'pp), and 4He(e,e'pn) reactions at Q2=2 [GeV/c]2 and xB >1, for a (e,e'p) missing-momentum range of 400 to 830 MeV/c. The knocked-out proton was detected in coincidence with a proton or neutron recoiling almost back to back to the missing momentum, leaving the residual A=2 system at low excitation energy. These data were used to identify two-nucleon short-range correlated pairs and to deduce their isospin structure as a function of missing momentum in a region where the nucleon-nucleon force is expected to change from predominantly tensor to repulsive. Neutron-proton pairs dominate the high-momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distributions, but their abundance is reduced as the nucleon momentum increases beyond ~500 MeV/c. The extracted fraction of proton-proton pairs is small and almost independent of the missing momentum in the range we studied. Our data are compared with ab-initio calculations of two-nucleon momentum distributions in 4He.

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Research Org.:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Contributing Org.:
Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1136701
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-14-1862; DOE/OR/23177-3038; arXiv:1401.6138
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-06OR23177; AC02-06CH11357; FG02-94ER40818
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 113; Journal Issue: 02; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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Korover, Igor, Muangma, Navaphon, Hen, Or, Shneor, Ran, Sulkosky, Vincent, Kelleher, Aidan, Gilad, Shalev, Higinbotham, Douglas, Piasetzky, Eliazer, Wood, Stephen, Rakhman, Abdurahim, Aguilera, Paula, Ahmed, Zafar, Albataineh, Hisham, Allada, Kalyan, Anderson, Bryon, Anez, David, Aniol, Konrad, Annand, John, Armstrong, Whitney, Arrington, John, Averett, Todd, Badman, Toby, Baghdasaryan, Hovhannes, Bai, Xinzhan, Beck, Arie, Beck, Sharon, Bellini, Vincenzo, Benmokhtar, Fatiha, Bertozzi, William, Bittner, James, Boeglin, Werner, Camsonne, Alexandre, Chen, Chunhua, Chen, Jian -Ping, Chirapatpimol, Khem, Cisbani, Evaristo, Dalton, Mark, Daniel, Aji, Day, Donal, De, Cornelis, de Jager, C. W., De, Raffaele, Leo, R. De, Deconinck, Wouter, Defurne, Maxime, Flay, David, Fomin, Nadia, Friend, Megan, Frullani, Salvatore, Fuchey, Eric, Garibaldi, Franco, Gaskell, David, Gilman, Ronald, Glamazdin, Oleksandr, Gu, Chao, Gueye, Paul, Hamilton, David, Hanretty, Charles, Hansen, Jens-Ole, Shabestari, Mitra Hashemi, Holmstrom, Timothy, Huang, Min, Iqbal, Sophia, Jin, Ge, Kalantarians, Narbe, Kang, Hoyoung, Khandaker, Mahbubul, LeRose, John, Leckey, John, Lindgren, Richard, Long, Elena, Mammei, Juliette, Margaziotis, Demetrius, Markowitz, Pete, Meekins, David, Meziani, Zein -Eddine, Michaels, Robert, Mihovilovic, Miha, Monaghan, Peter, Munoz, Carlos, Camacho, C. Munoz, Norum, Blaine, Nuruzzaman, nfn, Pan, Kai, Phillips, Sarah, Pomerantz, Ishay, Posik, Matthew, Punjabi, Vina, Qian, Xin, Qiang, Yi, Qiu, Xiyu, Reimer, Paul, Riordan, Seamus, Ron, Guy, Rondon-Aramayo, Oscar, Saha, Arunava, Schulte, Elaine, Selvy, Lawrence, Shahinyan, Albert, Sirca, Simon, Sjoegren, Johan, Slifer, Karl, Solvignon-Slifer, Patricia, Sparveris, Nikolaos, Subedi, Ramesh, Tireman, William, Wang, Diancheng, Weinstein, Lawrence, Wojtsekhowski, Bogdan, Yan, Wenbiao, Yaron, Israel, Ye, Zhihong, Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Yawei, Zhao, Bo, Zhao, Zhiwen, Zheng, Xiaochao, Zhu, Pengjia, Zielinski, Ryan, and Watson, John. Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the 4He(e,e`pN) Triple-Coincidence Reaction. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.022501.
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Korover, Igor, Muangma, Navaphon, Hen, Or, Shneor, Ran, Sulkosky, Vincent, Kelleher, Aidan, Gilad, Shalev, Higinbotham, Douglas, Piasetzky, Eliazer, Wood, Stephen, Rakhman, Abdurahim, Aguilera, Paula, Ahmed, Zafar, Albataineh, Hisham, Allada, Kalyan, Anderson, Bryon, Anez, David, Aniol, Konrad, Annand, John, Armstrong, Whitney, Arrington, John, Averett, Todd, Badman, Toby, Baghdasaryan, Hovhannes, Bai, Xinzhan, Beck, Arie, Beck, Sharon, Bellini, Vincenzo, Benmokhtar, Fatiha, Bertozzi, William, Bittner, James, Boeglin, Werner, Camsonne, Alexandre, Chen, Chunhua, Chen, Jian -Ping, Chirapatpimol, Khem, Cisbani, Evaristo, Dalton, Mark, Daniel, Aji, Day, Donal, De, Cornelis, de Jager, C. W., De, Raffaele, Leo, R. De, Deconinck, Wouter, Defurne, Maxime, Flay, David, Fomin, Nadia, Friend, Megan, Frullani, Salvatore, Fuchey, Eric, Garibaldi, Franco, Gaskell, David, Gilman, Ronald, Glamazdin, Oleksandr, Gu, Chao, Gueye, Paul, Hamilton, David, Hanretty, Charles, Hansen, Jens-Ole, Shabestari, Mitra Hashemi, Holmstrom, Timothy, Huang, Min, Iqbal, Sophia, Jin, Ge, Kalantarians, Narbe, Kang, Hoyoung, Khandaker, Mahbubul, LeRose, John, Leckey, John, Lindgren, Richard, Long, Elena, Mammei, Juliette, Margaziotis, Demetrius, Markowitz, Pete, Meekins, David, Meziani, Zein -Eddine, Michaels, Robert, Mihovilovic, Miha, Monaghan, Peter, Munoz, Carlos, Camacho, C. Munoz, Norum, Blaine, Nuruzzaman, nfn, Pan, Kai, Phillips, Sarah, Pomerantz, Ishay, Posik, Matthew, Punjabi, Vina, Qian, Xin, Qiang, Yi, Qiu, Xiyu, Reimer, Paul, Riordan, Seamus, Ron, Guy, Rondon-Aramayo, Oscar, Saha, Arunava, Schulte, Elaine, Selvy, Lawrence, Shahinyan, Albert, Sirca, Simon, Sjoegren, Johan, Slifer, Karl, Solvignon-Slifer, Patricia, Sparveris, Nikolaos, Subedi, Ramesh, Tireman, William, Wang, Diancheng, Weinstein, Lawrence, Wojtsekhowski, Bogdan, Yan, Wenbiao, Yaron, Israel, Ye, Zhihong, Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Yawei, Zhao, Bo, Zhao, Zhiwen, Zheng, Xiaochao, Zhu, Pengjia, Zielinski, Ryan, & Watson, John. Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the 4He(e,e`pN) Triple-Coincidence Reaction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.022501
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Korover, Igor, Muangma, Navaphon, Hen, Or, Shneor, Ran, Sulkosky, Vincent, Kelleher, Aidan, Gilad, Shalev, Higinbotham, Douglas, Piasetzky, Eliazer, Wood, Stephen, Rakhman, Abdurahim, Aguilera, Paula, Ahmed, Zafar, Albataineh, Hisham, Allada, Kalyan, Anderson, Bryon, Anez, David, Aniol, Konrad, Annand, John, Armstrong, Whitney, Arrington, John, Averett, Todd, Badman, Toby, Baghdasaryan, Hovhannes, Bai, Xinzhan, Beck, Arie, Beck, Sharon, Bellini, Vincenzo, Benmokhtar, Fatiha, Bertozzi, William, Bittner, James, Boeglin, Werner, Camsonne, Alexandre, Chen, Chunhua, Chen, Jian -Ping, Chirapatpimol, Khem, Cisbani, Evaristo, Dalton, Mark, Daniel, Aji, Day, Donal, De, Cornelis, de Jager, C. W., De, Raffaele, Leo, R. De, Deconinck, Wouter, Defurne, Maxime, Flay, David, Fomin, Nadia, Friend, Megan, Frullani, Salvatore, Fuchey, Eric, Garibaldi, Franco, Gaskell, David, Gilman, Ronald, Glamazdin, Oleksandr, Gu, Chao, Gueye, Paul, Hamilton, David, Hanretty, Charles, Hansen, Jens-Ole, Shabestari, Mitra Hashemi, Holmstrom, Timothy, Huang, Min, Iqbal, Sophia, Jin, Ge, Kalantarians, Narbe, Kang, Hoyoung, Khandaker, Mahbubul, LeRose, John, Leckey, John, Lindgren, Richard, Long, Elena, Mammei, Juliette, Margaziotis, Demetrius, Markowitz, Pete, Meekins, David, Meziani, Zein -Eddine, Michaels, Robert, Mihovilovic, Miha, Monaghan, Peter, Munoz, Carlos, Camacho, C. Munoz, Norum, Blaine, Nuruzzaman, nfn, Pan, Kai, Phillips, Sarah, Pomerantz, Ishay, Posik, Matthew, Punjabi, Vina, Qian, Xin, Qiang, Yi, Qiu, Xiyu, Reimer, Paul, Riordan, Seamus, Ron, Guy, Rondon-Aramayo, Oscar, Saha, Arunava, Schulte, Elaine, Selvy, Lawrence, Shahinyan, Albert, Sirca, Simon, Sjoegren, Johan, Slifer, Karl, Solvignon-Slifer, Patricia, Sparveris, Nikolaos, Subedi, Ramesh, Tireman, William, Wang, Diancheng, Weinstein, Lawrence, Wojtsekhowski, Bogdan, Yan, Wenbiao, Yaron, Israel, Ye, Zhihong, Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Yawei, Zhao, Bo, Zhao, Zhiwen, Zheng, Xiaochao, Zhu, Pengjia, Zielinski, Ryan, and Watson, John. Tue . "Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the 4He(e,e`pN) Triple-Coincidence Reaction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.022501. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1136701.
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@article{osti_1136701,
title = {Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the 4He(e,e`pN) Triple-Coincidence Reaction},
author = {Korover, Igor and Muangma, Navaphon and Hen, Or and Shneor, Ran and Sulkosky, Vincent and Kelleher, Aidan and Gilad, Shalev and Higinbotham, Douglas and Piasetzky, Eliazer and Wood, Stephen and Rakhman, Abdurahim and Aguilera, Paula and Ahmed, Zafar and Albataineh, Hisham and Allada, Kalyan and Anderson, Bryon and Anez, David and Aniol, Konrad and Annand, John and Armstrong, Whitney and Arrington, John and Averett, Todd and Badman, Toby and Baghdasaryan, Hovhannes and Bai, Xinzhan and Beck, Arie and Beck, Sharon and Bellini, Vincenzo and Benmokhtar, Fatiha and Bertozzi, William and Bittner, James and Boeglin, Werner and Camsonne, Alexandre and Chen, Chunhua and Chen, Jian -Ping and Chirapatpimol, Khem and Cisbani, Evaristo and Dalton, Mark and Daniel, Aji and Day, Donal and De, Cornelis and de Jager, C. W. and De, Raffaele and Leo, R. De and Deconinck, Wouter and Defurne, Maxime and Flay, David and Fomin, Nadia and Friend, Megan and Frullani, Salvatore and Fuchey, Eric and Garibaldi, Franco and Gaskell, David and Gilman, Ronald and Glamazdin, Oleksandr and Gu, Chao and Gueye, Paul and Hamilton, David and Hanretty, Charles and Hansen, Jens-Ole and Shabestari, Mitra Hashemi and Holmstrom, Timothy and Huang, Min and Iqbal, Sophia and Jin, Ge and Kalantarians, Narbe and Kang, Hoyoung and Khandaker, Mahbubul and LeRose, John and Leckey, John and Lindgren, Richard and Long, Elena and Mammei, Juliette and Margaziotis, Demetrius and Markowitz, Pete and Meekins, David and Meziani, Zein -Eddine and Michaels, Robert and Mihovilovic, Miha and Monaghan, Peter and Munoz, Carlos and Camacho, C. Munoz and Norum, Blaine and Nuruzzaman, nfn and Pan, Kai and Phillips, Sarah and Pomerantz, Ishay and Posik, Matthew and Punjabi, Vina and Qian, Xin and Qiang, Yi and Qiu, Xiyu and Reimer, Paul and Riordan, Seamus and Ron, Guy and Rondon-Aramayo, Oscar and Saha, Arunava and Schulte, Elaine and Selvy, Lawrence and Shahinyan, Albert and Sirca, Simon and Sjoegren, Johan and Slifer, Karl and Solvignon-Slifer, Patricia and Sparveris, Nikolaos and Subedi, Ramesh and Tireman, William and Wang, Diancheng and Weinstein, Lawrence and Wojtsekhowski, Bogdan and Yan, Wenbiao and Yaron, Israel and Ye, Zhihong and Zhan, X. and Zhang, J. and Zhang, Yawei and Zhao, Bo and Zhao, Zhiwen and Zheng, Xiaochao and Zhu, Pengjia and Zielinski, Ryan and Watson, John},
abstractNote = {We studied simultaneously the 4He(e,e'p), 4He(e,e'pp), and 4He(e,e'pn) reactions at Q2=2 [GeV/c]2 and xB >1, for a (e,e'p) missing-momentum range of 400 to 830 MeV/c. The knocked-out proton was detected in coincidence with a proton or neutron recoiling almost back to back to the missing momentum, leaving the residual A=2 system at low excitation energy. These data were used to identify two-nucleon short-range correlated pairs and to deduce their isospin structure as a function of missing momentum in a region where the nucleon-nucleon force is expected to change from predominantly tensor to repulsive. Neutron-proton pairs dominate the high-momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distributions, but their abundance is reduced as the nucleon momentum increases beyond ~500 MeV/c. The extracted fraction of proton-proton pairs is small and almost independent of the missing momentum in the range we studied. Our data are compared with ab-initio calculations of two-nucleon momentum distributions in 4He.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.022501},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 02,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
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