Search for three-nucleon short-range correlations in light nuclei

Ye, Z.; Solvignon, P.; Nguyen, D.; Aguilera, P.; Ahmed, Z.; Albataineh, H.; Allada, K.; Anderson, B.; Anez, D.; Aniol, K.; Annand, J.; Arrington, J.; Averett, T.; Baghdasaryan, H.; Bai, X.; Beck, A.; Beck, S.; Bellini, V.; Benmokhtar, F.; Camsonne, A.; Chen, C.; Chen, J.-P.; Chirapatpimol, K.; Cisbani, E.; Dalton, M. M.; Daniel, A.; Day, D.; Deconinck, W.; Defurne, M.; Flay, D.; Fomin, N.; Friend, M.; Frullani, S.; Fuchey, E.; Garibaldi, F.; Gaskell, D.; Gilad, S.; Gilman, R.; Glamazdin, S.; Gu, C.; Guèye, P.; Hanretty, C.; Hansen, J.-O.; Shabestari, M. Hashemi; Higinbotham, D. W.; Huang, M.; Iqbal, S.; Jin, G.; Kalantarians, N.; Kang, H.; Kelleher, A.; Korover, I.; LeRose, J.; Leckey, J.; Lindgren, R.; Long, E.; Mammei, J.; Margaziotis, D. J.; Markowitz, P.; Meekins, D.; Meziani, Z.; Michaels, R.; Mihovilovic, M.; Muangma, N.; Camacho, C. Munoz; Norum, B.; Nuruzzaman, B.; Pan, K.; Phillips, S.; Piasetzky, E.; Pomerantz, I.; Posik, M.; Punjabi, V.; Qian, X.; Qiang, Y.; Qiu, X.; Reimer, P. E.; Rakhman, A.; Riordan, S.; Ron, G.; Rondon-Aramayo, O.; Saha, A.; Selvy, L.; Shahinyan, A.; Shneor, R.; Sirca, S.; Slifer, K.; Sparveris, N.; Subedi, R.; Sulkosky, V.; Wang, D.; Watson, J. W.; Weinstein, L. B.; Wojtsekhowski, B.; Wood, S. A.; Yaron, I.; Zhan, X.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, Y. W.; Zhao, B.; Zheng, X.; Zhu, P.; Zielinski, R.

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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 ^{4}He/^{3}He cross section ratio is observed to be both x and Q^{2} 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.

Date issued

2018-06

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116648

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science

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Physical Review C

Publisher

American Physical Society

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Version: Final published version

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2469-9985

2469-9993

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