The Correlated Basis Function theory (CBF) provides a theoretical framework
to treat on the same ground mean-field and short-range correlations. We
present, in this report, some recent results obtained using the CBF to describe
the ground state properties of finite nuclear systems. Furthermore we show some
results for the excited state obtained with a simplified model based on the CBF
theory.Comment: 10 latex pages plus 6 uuencoded figure
