Search for Three-Nucleon Short-Range Correlations in Light Nuclei

Authors

Z. Ye
P. Solvignon
D. Nguten
P. Aguilera
Z. Ahmed
H. Albataineh, Old Dominion University
K. Allada
B. Anderson
D. Anez
L. B. Weinstein, Old Dominion UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.97.065204

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

97

Issue

6

Pages

065204 (5 pages)

Abstract

We present new data probing short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei through the measurement of electron scattering off high-momentum nucleons in nuclei. The inclusive ⁴He/³He cross section ratio is observed to be both x and Q² independent for 1.5 < x < 2, confirming the dominance of two-nucleon short-range correlations. For x > 2, our data support the hypothesis that a previous claim of three-nucleon correlation dominance was an artifact caused by the limited resolution of the measurement. While 3N-SRCs appear to have an important contribution, our data show that isolating 3N-SRCs is significantly more complicated than for 2N-SRCs.

Comments

Article is open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license.

©2018 American Physical Society

Original Publication Citation

Ye, Z., Solvignon, P., Nguyen, D., Aguilera, P., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., . . . Zielinski, R. (2018). Search for three-nucleon short-range correlations in light nuclei. Physical Review C, 97(6), 065204. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.065204

ORCID

0000-0001-5416-2900 (Weinstein)

Repository Citation

Ye, Z.; Solvignon, P.; Nguten, D.; Aguilera, P.; Ahmed, Z.; Albataineh, H.; Allada, K.; Anderson, B.; Anez, D.; and Weinstein, L. B., "Search for Three-Nucleon Short-Range Correlations in Light Nuclei" (2018). Physics Faculty Publications. 217.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/physics_fac_pubs/217