Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction

Schmidt, A.; Pybus, J.  R.; Weiss, R.; Segarra, E.  P.; Hrnjic, A.; Denniston, A.; Hen, O.; Piasetzky, E.; Weinstein, L.  B.; Barnea, N.; Strikman, M.; Larionov, A.; Higinbotham, D.

doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2021-6

Title: Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction

Abstract

The strong nuclear interaction between nucleons (protons and neutrons) is the effective force that holds the atomic nucleus together. This force stems from fundamental interactions between quarks and gluons (the constituents of nucleons) that are described by the equations of quantum chromodynamics. However, as these equations cannot be solved directly, nuclear interactions are described using simplified models, which are well constrained at typical inter-nucleon distances but not at shorter distances. This limits our ability to describe high-density nuclear matter such as that in the cores of neutron stars. Here we use high-energy electron scattering measurements that isolate nucleon pairs in short-distance, high-momentum configurations, accessing a kinematical regime that has not been previously explored by experiments, corresponding to relative momenta between the pair above 400 megaelectronvolts per c (c, speed of light in vacuum). As the relative momentum between two nucleons increases and their separation thereby decreases, we observe a transition from a spin-dependent tensor force to a predominantly spin-independent scalar force. Here, these results demonstrate the usefulness of using such measurements to study the nuclear interaction at short distances and also support the use of point-like nucleon models with two- and three-body effective interactions to describe nuclear systems up tomore »« less

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Schmidt, A. ^[1]; Pybus, J. R. ^[2]; Weiss, R. ^[3]; Segarra, E. P. ^[2]; Hrnjic, A. ^[2]; Denniston, A. ^[2]; Hen, O. ^[2]; Piasetzky, E. ^[4]; Weinstein, L. B. ^[5]; Barnea, N. ^[3]; Strikman, M. ^[6]; Larionov, A. ^[7]; Higinbotham, D. ^[8]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem (Israel)
Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv (Israel)
Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies, Giersch Science Center, Frankfurt (Germany)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2020

Research Org.:: George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States); Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); George Washington Univ., Ashburn, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Contributing Org.:: The CLAS Collaboration; The CLAS Collaboration

OSTI Identifier:: 1615508

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1601968; OSTI ID: 1726261; OSTI ID: 1765373; OSTI ID: 1781683

Report Number(s):: JLAB-PHY-20-3135; DOE-OR-23177-4900
Journal ID: ISSN 0028-0836; TRN: US2106359

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016583; AC05-06OR23177; AC02-06CH11357; FG02-07ER41528

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nature (London)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Nature (London); Journal Volume: 578; Journal Issue: 7796; Journal ID: ISSN 0028-0836

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Experimental nuclear physics; Theoretical nuclear physics

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                    Schmidt, A., Pybus, J.  R., Weiss, R., Segarra, E.  P., Hrnjic, A., Denniston, A., Hen, O., Piasetzky, E., Weinstein, L.  B., Barnea, N., Strikman, M., Larionov, A., and Higinbotham, D. Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Schmidt, A., Pybus, J.  R., Weiss, R., Segarra, E.  P., Hrnjic, A., Denniston, A., Hen, O., Piasetzky, E., Weinstein, L.  B., Barnea, N., Strikman, M., Larionov, A., & Higinbotham, D. Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2021-6

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                    Schmidt, A., Pybus, J.  R., Weiss, R., Segarra, E.  P., Hrnjic, A., Denniston, A., Hen, O., Piasetzky, E., Weinstein, L.  B., Barnea, N., Strikman, M., Larionov, A., and Higinbotham, D. Wed .  
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@article{osti_1615508,

  title        = {Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction},

  author       = {Schmidt, A. and Pybus, J.  R. and Weiss, R. and Segarra, E.  P. and Hrnjic, A. and Denniston, A. and Hen, O. and Piasetzky, E. and Weinstein, L.  B. and Barnea, N. and Strikman, M. and Larionov, A. and Higinbotham, D.},

  abstractNote = {The strong nuclear interaction between nucleons (protons and neutrons) is the effective force that holds the atomic nucleus together. This force stems from fundamental interactions between quarks and gluons (the constituents of nucleons) that are described by the equations of quantum chromodynamics. However, as these equations cannot be solved directly, nuclear interactions are described using simplified models, which are well constrained at typical inter-nucleon distances but not at shorter distances. This limits our ability to describe high-density nuclear matter such as that in the cores of neutron stars. Here we use high-energy electron scattering measurements that isolate nucleon pairs in short-distance, high-momentum configurations, accessing a kinematical regime that has not been previously explored by experiments, corresponding to relative momenta between the pair above 400 megaelectronvolts per c (c, speed of light in vacuum). As the relative momentum between two nucleons increases and their separation thereby decreases, we observe a transition from a spin-dependent tensor force to a predominantly spin-independent scalar force. Here, these results demonstrate the usefulness of using such measurements to study the nuclear interaction at short distances and also support the use of point-like nucleon models with two- and three-body effective interactions to describe nuclear systems up to densities several times higher than the central density of the nucleus.},

  doi          = {10.1038/s41586-020-2021-6},

  journal      = {Nature (London)},

  number       = 7796,

  volume       = 578,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2020},

  month        = {Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2020}

}

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The bonn meson-exchange model for the nucleon—nucleon interaction journal, May 1987

Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraints journal, April 2007

Feynman graphs and generalized eikonal approach to high energy knock-out processes journal, August 1997

Accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking journal, January 1995

The CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer (CLAS) journal, May 2003

Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the He 4 ( e , e ′ p N ) Triple-Coincidence Reaction journal, July 2014

Final-state interactions in two-nucleon knockout reactions journal, March 2016

Two-nucleon correlations and the structure of the nucleon spectral function at high values of momentum and removal energy journal, July 1991

Short range correlations and the isospin dependence of nuclear correlation functions journal, October 2018

Many-body factorization and position–momentum equivalence of nuclear short-range correlations journal, November 2020

Selected Topics in high Energy Semi-Exclusive Electro-Nuclear Reactions journal, December 2001

Modified structure of protons and neutrons in correlated pairs journal, February 2019

Measurement of transparency ratios for protons from short-range correlated pairs journal, May 2013

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions journal, November 2017

Measurement of the H e 3 ( e , e ′ p ) p n Reaction at High Missing Energies and Momenta journal, March 2005

Weinberg eigenvalues for chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions journal, November 2017

Scale dependence of deuteron electrodisintegration journal, November 2017

Energy and momentum dependence of nuclear short-range correlations - Spectral function, exclusive scattering experiments and the contact formalism journal, April 2019

Evidence for Strong Dominance of Proton-Neutron Correlations in Nuclei journal, October 2006

Color transparency: Past, present and future journal, March 2013

In-medium short-range dynamics of nucleons: Recent theoretical and experimental advances journal, August 2015

Measurement of nuclear transparency ratios for protons and neutrons journal, October 2019

Nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions in A ≤ 12 nuclei journal, February 2014

Probing the repulsive core of the nucleon-nucleon interaction via the He 4 (e,e′pN) triple-coincidence reaction text, January 2014

Off-shell electron-nucleon cross sections journal, January 1983

Universality of many-body two-nucleon momentum distributions: Correlated nucleon spectral function of complex nuclei journal, December 2017

Multinucleon short-range correlation model for nuclear spectral functions: Theoretical framework journal, December 2016

Global study of nuclear structure functions journal, January 2006

Experimental Study of Exclusive H 2 ( e , e ′ p ) n Reaction Mechanisms at High Q 2 journal, June 2007

A double-target system for precision measurements of nuclear medium effects journal, July 2008

High-energy phenomena, short-range nuclear structure and QCD journal, October 1981

Generalized nuclear contacts and momentum distributions journal, November 2015

Quasielastic He 3 ( e , e ′ p ) H 2 Reaction at Q 2 = 1.5 GeV 2 for Recoil Momenta up to 1 GeV / c journal, May 2005

Realistic model of the nucleon spectral function in few- and many-nucleon systems journal, April 1996

Modern theory of nuclear forces journal, December 2009

Short-range correlations and the charge density journal, March 2019

Relation between equal-time and light-front wave functions journal, March 2010

Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter journal, June 2008

Center of Mass Motion of Short-Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs studied via the A ( e , e ′ p p ) Reaction journal, August 2018

Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei journal, May 2019

Extracting the mass dependence and quantum numbers of short-range correlated pairs from A ( e , e ′ p ) and A ( e , e ′ p p ) scattering journal, August 2015

The EMC effect journal, July 2003

Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions journal, July 2018

Recent Observation of Short-Range Nucleon Correlations in Nuclei and Their Implications for the Structure of Nuclei and Neutron Stars journal, August 2008

Probing the High Momentum Component of the Deuteron at High Q 2 journal, December 2011

Momentum sharing in imbalanced Fermi systems journal, October 2014

Factorization of exclusive electron-induced two-nucleon knockout journal, February 2014

n − p Short-Range Correlations from ( p , 2 p + n ) Measurements journal, January 2003

The EMC effect journal, December 1985

Nucleon-nucleon correlations, short-lived excitations, and the quarks within journal, November 2017

The nuclear contacts and short range correlations in nuclei journal, May 2018

Investigation of Proton-Proton Short-Range Correlations via the C 12 ( e , e ′ p p ) Reaction journal, August 2007

Quantum Monte Carlo methods for nuclear physics journal, September 2015

Exclusive electrodisintegration of He 3 at high Q 2 . II. Decay function formalism journal, April 2005

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations with Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions journal, July 2013

Radiative corrections for ( e , e ′ p ) reactions at GeV energies journal, October 2001

Modern Theory of Nuclear Forces text, January 2008

Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter text, January 2009

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations with Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions text, January 2013

Factorization of exclusive electroinduced two-nucleon knockout text, January 2013

Final-state interactions in two-nucleon knockout reactions text, January 2015

Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations, Short-lived Excitations, and the Quarks Within text, January 2016

The nuclear contacts and short range correlations in nuclei text, January 2016

Scale dependence of deuteron electrodisintegration text, January 2017

Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions text, January 2018

The center of mass motion of short-range correlated nucleon pairs studied via the A(e,e'pp) reaction text, January 2018

Energy and momentum dependence of nuclear short-range correlations - Spectral function, exclusive scattering experiments and the contact formalism text, January 2018

Short-range correlations and the charge density text, January 2018

Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei text, January 2018

Measurement of Nuclear Transparency Ratios for Protons and Neutrons text, January 2018

Neutron Star Observations: Prognosis for Equation of State Constraints text, January 2006

Global Study of Nuclear Structure Functions text, January 2004

Selected Topics in High Energy Semi-Exclusive Electro-Nuclear Reactions text, January 2001

An accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking text, January 1994

Realistic Model of the Nucleon Spectral Function in Few- and Many- Nucleon Systems text, January 1995

Feynman Graphs and Generalized Eikonal Approach to High Energy Knock-Out Processes text, January 1996

The bonn meson-exchange model for the nucleon—nucleon interaction
journal, May 1987

Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraints
journal, April 2007

Feynman graphs and generalized eikonal approach to high energy knock-out processes
journal, August 1997

Accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking
journal, January 1995

The CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer (CLAS)
journal, May 2003

Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the ${}^{4}{He} (e, e^{'} p N)$ Triple-Coincidence Reaction
journal, July 2014

Final-state interactions in two-nucleon knockout reactions
journal, March 2016

Two-nucleon correlations and the structure of the nucleon spectral function at high values of momentum and removal energy
journal, July 1991

Short range correlations and the isospin dependence of nuclear correlation functions
journal, October 2018

Many-body factorization and position–momentum equivalence of nuclear short-range correlations
journal, November 2020

Selected Topics in high Energy Semi-Exclusive Electro-Nuclear Reactions
journal, December 2001

Modified structure of protons and neutrons in correlated pairs
journal, February 2019

Measurement of transparency ratios for protons from short-range correlated pairs
journal, May 2013

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions
journal, November 2017

Measurement of the ${}^{3}{H e} (e, e^{'} p) p n$ Reaction at High Missing Energies and Momenta
journal, March 2005

Weinberg eigenvalues for chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions
journal, November 2017

Scale dependence of deuteron electrodisintegration
journal, November 2017

Energy and momentum dependence of nuclear short-range correlations - Spectral function, exclusive scattering experiments and the contact formalism
journal, April 2019

Evidence for Strong Dominance of Proton-Neutron Correlations in Nuclei
journal, October 2006

Color transparency: Past, present and future
journal, March 2013

In-medium short-range dynamics of nucleons: Recent theoretical and experimental advances
journal, August 2015

Measurement of nuclear transparency ratios for protons and neutrons
journal, October 2019

Nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions in $A \leq 12$ nuclei
journal, February 2014

Probing the repulsive core of the nucleon-nucleon interaction via the He 4 (e,e′pN) triple-coincidence reaction
text, January 2014

Off-shell electron-nucleon cross sections
journal, January 1983

Universality of many-body two-nucleon momentum distributions: Correlated nucleon spectral function of complex nuclei
journal, December 2017

Multinucleon short-range correlation model for nuclear spectral functions: Theoretical framework
journal, December 2016

Global study of nuclear structure functions
journal, January 2006

Experimental Study of Exclusive ${}^{2}H (e, e^{'} p) n$ Reaction Mechanisms at High $Q^{2}$
journal, June 2007

A double-target system for precision measurements of nuclear medium effects
journal, July 2008

High-energy phenomena, short-range nuclear structure and QCD
journal, October 1981

Generalized nuclear contacts and momentum distributions
journal, November 2015

Quasielastic ${}^{3}{He} (e, e^{'} p) {}^{2}H$ Reaction at $Q^{2} = 1.5 {GeV}^{2}$ for Recoil Momenta up to $1 GeV / c$
journal, May 2005

Realistic model of the nucleon spectral function in few- and many-nucleon systems
journal, April 1996

Modern theory of nuclear forces
journal, December 2009

Short-range correlations and the charge density
journal, March 2019

Relation between equal-time and light-front wave functions
journal, March 2010

Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter
journal, June 2008

Center of Mass Motion of Short-Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs studied via the $A (e, e^{'} p p)$ Reaction
journal, August 2018

Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei
journal, May 2019

Extracting the mass dependence and quantum numbers of short-range correlated pairs from $A (e, e^{'} p)$ and $A (e, e^{'} p p)$ scattering
journal, August 2015

The EMC effect
journal, July 2003

Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions
journal, July 2018

Recent Observation of Short-Range Nucleon Correlations in Nuclei and Their Implications for the Structure of Nuclei and Neutron Stars
journal, August 2008

Probing the High Momentum Component of the Deuteron at High $Q^{2}$
journal, December 2011

Momentum sharing in imbalanced Fermi systems
journal, October 2014

Factorization of exclusive electron-induced two-nucleon knockout
journal, February 2014

$n − p$ Short-Range Correlations from ( $p, 2 p + n$ ) Measurements
journal, January 2003

The EMC effect
journal, December 1985

Nucleon-nucleon correlations, short-lived excitations, and the quarks within
journal, November 2017

The nuclear contacts and short range correlations in nuclei
journal, May 2018

Investigation of Proton-Proton Short-Range Correlations via the ${}^{12}C (e, e^{'} p p)$ Reaction
journal, August 2007

Quantum Monte Carlo methods for nuclear physics
journal, September 2015

Exclusive electrodisintegration of ${}^{3}{He}$ at high $Q^{2}$ . II. Decay function formalism
journal, April 2005

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations with Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions
journal, July 2013

Radiative corrections for ${(e, e}^{'} p)$ reactions at GeV energies
journal, October 2001

Modern Theory of Nuclear Forces
text, January 2008

Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter
text, January 2009

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations with Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions
text, January 2013

Factorization of exclusive electroinduced two-nucleon knockout
text, January 2013

Final-state interactions in two-nucleon knockout reactions
text, January 2015

Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations, Short-lived Excitations, and the Quarks Within
text, January 2016

The nuclear contacts and short range correlations in nuclei
text, January 2016

Scale dependence of deuteron electrodisintegration
text, January 2017

Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions
text, January 2018

The center of mass motion of short-range correlated nucleon pairs studied via the A(e,e'pp) reaction
text, January 2018

Energy and momentum dependence of nuclear short-range correlations - Spectral function, exclusive scattering experiments and the contact formalism
text, January 2018

Short-range correlations and the charge density
text, January 2018

Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei
text, January 2018

Measurement of Nuclear Transparency Ratios for Protons and Neutrons
text, January 2018

Neutron Star Observations: Prognosis for Equation of State Constraints
text, January 2006

Global Study of Nuclear Structure Functions
text, January 2004

Selected Topics in High Energy Semi-Exclusive Electro-Nuclear Reactions
text, January 2001

An accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking
text, January 1994

Realistic Model of the Nucleon Spectral Function in Few- and Many- Nucleon Systems
text, January 1995

Feynman Graphs and Generalized Eikonal Approach to High Energy Knock-Out Processes
text, January 1996