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Title: Quark distributions in nuclei

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)
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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Corso Italia 57, 9512, Catania ( ) Italy Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita, 95129 Catania (Italy)

By making use of a mapping procedure recently proposed, we construct the nucleon image of the one-body quark density operator in the framework of the nonrelativistic quark model of the nucleons. We evaluate the expectation value of this operator in the ground state of the doubly magic nuclei {sup 4}He, {sup 16}O, and {sup 40}Ca described within the nuclear shell model. We analyze the role of quark exchanges between nucleons. We also investigate the effect on the quark density of short-range correlations in the nuclear wave functions as well as of variations in the nucleon size.

OSTI ID:
7035269
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Vol. 46:2; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English