Searching for three-nucleon short-range correlations
Abstract
Three-nucleon (3N) short-range correlations (SRCs) are some of the most elusive structures in nuclei. Their observation and the subsequent study of their internal makeup will have a significant impact on our understanding of the dynamics of the superdense nuclear matter which exists at the cores of neutron stars. In this paper, we discuss the kinematic conditions and observables that are most favorable for probing 3N SRCs in inclusive electronuclear processes and make a prediction for a quadratic dependence of the probabilities of finding a nucleon in 2N and 3N SRCs. We demonstrate that this prediction is consistent with the limited high-energy experimental data available, suggesting that we have observed, for the first time, 3N SRCs in electronuclear processes. Our analysis enables us to extract a3(A, Z), the probability of finding 3N SRCs in nuclei relative to the A = 3 system.
- Authors:
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- Florida International Univ., Miami, FL (United States)
- Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
- Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Florida International Univ. (FIU), Miami, FL (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1800023
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1573292
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-01ER41172; FG02-93ER40771; FG02-96ER40950
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Physics
Citation Formats
Sargsian, Misak M., Day, Donal B., Frankfurt, Leonid L., and Strikman, Mark I. Searching for three-nucleon short-range correlations. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevc.100.044320.
Sargsian, Misak M., Day, Donal B., Frankfurt, Leonid L., & Strikman, Mark I. Searching for three-nucleon short-range correlations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.100.044320
Sargsian, Misak M., Day, Donal B., Frankfurt, Leonid L., and Strikman, Mark I. Mon .
"Searching for three-nucleon short-range correlations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.100.044320. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1800023.
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abstractNote = {Three-nucleon (3N) short-range correlations (SRCs) are some of the most elusive structures in nuclei. Their observation and the subsequent study of their internal makeup will have a significant impact on our understanding of the dynamics of the superdense nuclear matter which exists at the cores of neutron stars. In this paper, we discuss the kinematic conditions and observables that are most favorable for probing 3N SRCs in inclusive electronuclear processes and make a prediction for a quadratic dependence of the probabilities of finding a nucleon in 2N and 3N SRCs. We demonstrate that this prediction is consistent with the limited high-energy experimental data available, suggesting that we have observed, for the first time, 3N SRCs in electronuclear processes. Our analysis enables us to extract a3(A, Z), the probability of finding 3N SRCs in nuclei relative to the A = 3 system.},
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year = {Mon Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
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