Short-range correlation physics at low renormalization group resolution

Tropiano, A. J.; Bogner, S. K.; Furnstahl, R. J.

doi:10.1103/physrevc.104.034311

Short-range correlation physics at low renormalization group resolution

Journal Article · Mon Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physical Review. C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.034311· OSTI ID:1852488

^[1]; Bogner, S. K. ^[2]; ^[3]

The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); OSTI
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)

Recent experiments have succeeded in isolating processes for which short-range correlation (SRC) physics is dominant and well accounted for by SRC phenomenology. But an alternative and compelling picture emerges from renormalization group (RG) evolution to low RG resolution. At high RG resolution, SRCs are identified as components in the nuclear wave function with relative pair momenta greater than the Fermi momentum. Scale separation results in wave-function factorization that can be exploited with phenomenologies such as the generalized contact formalism or the low-order correlation operator approximation. Evolution to lower resolution shifts SRC physics from nuclear structure to the reaction operators without changing the measured observables. We show how the features of SRC phenomenology manifested at high RG resolution are cleanly identified at low RG resolution using simple two-body operators and local-density approximations with uncorrelated wave functions, all of which can be systematically generalized. We verify that the experimental consequences to date follow directly at low resolution from well-established properties of nucleon-nucleon interactions such as the tensor force. Thus the RG reconciles the contrasting pictures of the same experiment and shows how to get correct results using wave functions without SRC components. Finally, our demonstration has implications for the analysis of knockout reactions for which SRC physics is not cleanly isolated.

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Research Organization:: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018083

OSTI ID:: 1852488

Journal Information:: Physical Review. C, Journal Name: Physical Review. C Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 104; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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