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Can Long-Range Nuclear Properties Be Influenced By Short Range Interactions? A chiral dynamics estimate
Recent experiments and many-body calculations indicate that approximately
20\% of the nucleons in medium and heavy nuclei () are part of
short-range correlated (SRC) primarily neutron-proton () pairs. We find
that using chiral dynamics to account for the formation of pairs 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.Comment: 6 pages, 0 figures. This version includes many improvement
Constraints on the large-x d/u ratio from electron-nucleus scattering at x>1
Recently the ratio of neutron to proton structure functions F_2n/F_2p was
extracted from a phenomenological correlation between the strength of the
nuclear EMC effect and inclusive electron-nucleus cross section ratios at x>1.
Within conventional models of nuclear smearing, this "in-medium correction"
(IMC) extraction constrains the size of nuclear effects in the deuteron
structure functions, from which the neutron structure function F_2n is usually
extracted. The IMC data determine the resulting proton d/u quark distribution
ratio, extrapolated to x=1, to be 0.23 +- 0.09 with a 90% confidence level.
This is well below the SU(6) symmetry limit of 1/2 and significantly above the
scalar diquark dominance limit of 0.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Laser Calibration System for Time of Flight Scintillator Arrays
A laser calibration system was developed for monitoring and calibrating time
of flight (TOF) scintillating detector arrays. The system includes setups for
both small- and large-scale scintillator arrays. Following test-bench
characterization, the laser system was recently commissioned in experimental
Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility for use on the new
Backward Angle Neutron Detector (BAND) scintillator array. The system
successfully provided time walk corrections, absolute time calibration, and TOF
drift correction for the scintillators in BAND. This showcases the general
applicability of the system for use on high-precision TOF detectors.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figure
Generalized Contact Formalism Analysis of the He Reaction
Measurements of short-range correlations in exclusive He
reactions are analyzed using the Generalized Contact Formalism (GCF). We
consider both instant-form and light-cone formulations with both the AV18 and
local N2LO(1.0) nucleon-nucleon () potentials. We find that kinematic
distributions, such as the reconstructed pair opening angle, recoil neutron
momentum distribution, and pair center of mass motion, as well as the measured
missing energy, missing mass distributions, are all well reproduced by GCF
calculations. The missing momentum dependence of the measured He
/ He cross-section ratios, sensitive to nature of the
interaction at short-distacnes, are also well reproduced by GCF calculations
using either interaction and formulation. This gives credence to the GCF
scale-separated factorized description of the short-distance many-body nuclear
wave-function.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B. 8 pages, 4 figures and
online supplementary material
Extracing the number of short-range corerlated nucleon pairs from inclusive electron scattering data
The extraction of the relative abundances of short-range correlated (SRC)
nucleon pairs from inclusive electron scattering is studied using the
generalized contact formalism (GCF) with several nuclear interaction models.
GCF calculations can reproduce the observed scaling of the cross-section ratios
for nuclei relative to deuterium at high- and large-,
. In the non-relativistic instant-form
formulation, the calculation is very sensitive to the model parameters and only
reproduces the data using parameters that are inconsistent with ab-initio
many-body calculations. Using a light-cone GCF formulation significantly
decreases this sensitivity and improves the agreement with ab-initio
calculations. The ratio of similar mass isotopes, such as Ca and
Ca, should be sensitive to the nuclear asymmetry dependence of SRCs, but
is found to also be sensitive to low-energy nuclear structure. Thus the
empirical association of SRC pair abundances with the measured values is
only accurate to about . Improving this will require cross-section
calculations that reproduce the data while properly accounting for both nuclear
structure and relativistic effects.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C (Lett). 6 pages, 4 figures,
and online supplementary material
Extracting the Number of Short Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs from Inclusive Electron Scattering Data
The extraction of the relative abundances of short-range correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs from inclusive electron scattering is studied using the generalized contact formalism (GCF) with several nuclear interaction models. GCF calculations can reproduce the observed scaling of the cross-section ratios for nuclei relative to deuterium at high xB and large Q2, a2 = (σA/A)/(σd/2). In the nonrelativistic instant-form formulation, the calculation is very sensitive to the model parameters and only reproduces the data using parameters that are inconsistent with ab initio many-body calculations. Using a light-cone GCF formulation significantly decreases this sensitivity and improves the agreement with ab initio calculations. The ratio of similar mass isotopes, such as 40Ca and 48Ca, should be sensitive to the nuclear asymmetry dependence of SRCs, but is found to also be sensitive to low-energy nuclear structure. Thus the empirical association of SRC pair abundances with the measured a2 values is only accurate to about 20%. Improving this will require cross-section calculations that reproduce the data while properly accounting for both nuclear structure and relativistic effects
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