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Title: Can long-range nuclear properties Be influenced by short range interactions? A chiral dynamics estimate

Abstract

Recent experiments and many-body calculations indicate that approximately 20% of the nucleons in medium and heavy nuclei (A ≥12) are part of short-range correlated (SRC) primarily neutron-proton (np) pairs. We find that using chiral dynamics to account for the formation of nppairs due to the effects of iterated and irreducible two-pion exchange leads to values consistent with the 20% level. We further apply chiral dynamics to study how these correlations influence the calculations of nuclear charge radii, that traditionally truncate their effect, to find that they are capable of introducing non-negligible effects.

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Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1547198
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1610266
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-97ER-41014; FG02-94ER40818; FG02-96ER-40960; FG02-96ER40960; FG02-97ER41014
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physics Letters. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Journal Volume: 793 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics

Citation Formats

Miller, G. A., Beck, A., May-Tal Beck, S., Weinstein, L. B., Piasetzky, E., and Hen, O. Can long-range nuclear properties Be influenced by short range interactions? A chiral dynamics estimate. Netherlands: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.010.
Miller, G. A., Beck, A., May-Tal Beck, S., Weinstein, L. B., Piasetzky, E., & Hen, O. Can long-range nuclear properties Be influenced by short range interactions? A chiral dynamics estimate. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.010
Miller, G. A., Beck, A., May-Tal Beck, S., Weinstein, L. B., Piasetzky, E., and Hen, O. Sat . "Can long-range nuclear properties Be influenced by short range interactions? A chiral dynamics estimate". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.010.
@article{osti_1547198,
title = {Can long-range nuclear properties Be influenced by short range interactions? A chiral dynamics estimate},
author = {Miller, G. A. and Beck, A. and May-Tal Beck, S. and Weinstein, L. B. and Piasetzky, E. and Hen, O.},
abstractNote = {Recent experiments and many-body calculations indicate that approximately 20% of the nucleons in medium and heavy nuclei (A ≥12) are part of short-range correlated (SRC) primarily neutron-proton (np) pairs. We find that using chiral dynamics to account for the formation of nppairs due to the effects of iterated and irreducible two-pion exchange leads to values consistent with the 20% level. We further apply chiral dynamics to study how these correlations influence the calculations of nuclear charge radii, that traditionally truncate their effect, to find that they are capable of introducing non-negligible effects.},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.010},
journal = {Physics Letters. B},
number = C,
volume = 793,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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