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Title Two-Nucleon Short-Range Correlations in Light Nuclei
Abstract Understanding the nucleon-nucleon interaction is a fundamental task in nuclear physics, as NN interaction models are a crucial input to modern nuclear structure calculations. While great progress has been made toward understanding this interaction, the available state-of-the-art models predict significantly different behaviors at short distances and high momenta (scale-and-scheme dependence), where two-nucleon Short-Range Correlations (SRCs) dominate the nuclear wave function. Thus, SRCs are a unique tool to constrain the NN interaction and vice versa. SRCs are naturallyoccurring high-local-density NN pairs that, as a result of their short-distance (approx. 0.1 fm) repulsive interaction, fly apart with high momenta, hence populating momentum states above the Fermi level. The study of SRCs also has significant implications for other fields, such as the astrophysics of neutron stars and the behavior of cold atomic gasses. This thesis describes experimental and phenomenologica
Author(s) Reynier Cruz Torres
Publication Date June 2020
Document Type Thesis
Primary Institution Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Affiliation Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall A
Funding Source Nuclear Physics (NP)
Proprietary? No
This publication conveys Technical Science Results
Document Numbers
JLAB Number: JLAB-PHY-20-3181 OSTI Number: 1614815
LANL Number: Other Number: DOE/OR/23177-4958
Associated with an experiment Yes
Experiment Number(s)
E12-14-011
Associated with EIC No
Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding No
Thesis
Thesis Type PhD
Advisor Institution
1. Or Hen MIT
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