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Dalal R, Douglas MacGregor IJ. Nucleon-nucleon correlations inside atomic nuclei: synergies, observations and theoretical models. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2024; 87:034301. [PMID: 38335543 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ad27dd] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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While the main features of atomic nuclei are well described by nuclear mean-field models, there is a large and growing body of evidence which indicates an important additional role played by spatially-correlated nucleon-nucleon structures. The role of nucleonic structures was first suggested by Heidmann in 1950 to explain the pick-up reactions of energetic nucleons. Since then, a steady flux of new experimental evidence has confirmed the presence of similar structures inside atomic nuclei, dominated by correlations between pairs of nucleons. The role of these internal nucleon-nucleon correlations has been established using various energetic probes like photons, pions, leptons and hadrons. These correlated structures are essential for understanding the interaction of particles with nuclei and their presence provides an explanation of many specific nuclear phenomena, including backscattered protons, copious deuteron production, sub-threshold particle production, neutrino interactions with nuclei and the European Muon Collaboration effect. On the theoretical side, these measurements have stimulated a large number of phenomenological models specifically devised to address these enigmatic observations. While reviews exist for specific interactions, there is currently no published commentary which systematically encompasses the wide range of experimental signatures and theoretical frameworks developed thus far. The present review draws together the synergies between a wide range of different experimental and theoretical studies, summarizes progress in this area and highlights outstanding issues for further study.
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- Ranjeet Dalal
- Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, India
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- SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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Hebborn C, Nunes FM, Lovell AE. New Perspectives on Spectroscopic Factor Quenching from Reactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:212503. [PMID: 38072593 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.212503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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The evolution of single-particle strengths as the neutron-to-proton asymmetry changes informs us of the importance of short- and long-range correlations in nuclei and has therefore been extensively studied for the last two decades. Surprisingly, the strong asymmetry dependence of these strengths and their extreme values for highly asymmetric nuclei inferred from knockout reaction measurements on a target nucleus are not consistent with what is extracted from electron-induced, transfer, and quasi-free reaction data, constituting a two-decade old puzzle. This work presents the first consistent analysis of one-nucleon transfer and one-nucleon knockout data, in which theoretical uncertainties associated with the nucleon-nucleus effective interactions considered in the reaction models are quantified using a Bayesian analysis. Our results demonstrate that, taking into account these uncertainties, the spectroscopic strengths of loosely bound nucleons extracted from both probes agree with each other and, although there are still discrepancies for deeply bound nucleons, the slope of the asymmetry dependence of the single-particle strengths inferred from transfer and knockout reactions are consistent within 1σ. Both probes are consistent with a small asymmetry dependence of these strengths. The uncertainties obtained in this work represent a lower bound and are already significantly larger than the original estimates.
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- C Hebborn
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-414, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Sargsian MM, Vera F. New Structure in the Deuteron. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:112502. [PMID: 37001102 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.112502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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We demonstrate that a paradigm shift from considering the deuteron as a system of a bound proton and neutron to that of a pseudovector system in which we observe a proton and neutron results in the possibility of probing a new "incomplete" P-statelike structure on the light front (LF). This occurs at extremely large internal momenta, which can be achieved in a high energy transfer electrodisintegration of the deuteron. Investigating the deuteron on the light front, where the vacuum fluctuations are suppressed, we found that this new structure, together with the conventional S and D states, is leading order in transferred energy of the reaction and thus not suppressed on the light front. The incompleteness of the observed P state results in a violation of the angular condition that can happen only if the deuteron contains non-nucleonic structures, such as Δ Δ, N^{*}N or hidden color components. We demonstrate that experimentally verifiable signatures of incomplete P states are angular anisotropy of the light front momentum distribution of the nucleon in the deuteron, as well as an enhancement of the tensor polarization strength beyond the S- and D-wave predictions at large internal momenta in the deuteron.
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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Abrams D, Albataineh H, Aljawrneh BS, Alsalmi S, Androic D, Aniol K, Armstrong W, Arrington J, Atac H, Averett T, Gayoso CA, Bai X, Bane J, Barcus S, Beck A, Bellini V, Bhatt H, Bhetuwal D, Biswas D, Blyth D, Boeglin W, Bulumulla D, Butler J, Camsonne A, Carmignotto M, Castellanos J, Chen JP, Cohen EO, Covrig S, Craycraft K, Cruz-Torres R, Dongwi B, Duran B, Dutta D, Fuchey E, Gal C, Gautam TN, Gilad S, Gnanvo K, Gogami T, Gomez J, Gu C, Habarakada A, Hague T, Hansen JO, Hattawy M, Hauenstein F, Higinbotham DW, Holt RJ, Hughes EW, Hyde C, Ibrahim H, Jian S, Joosten S, Karki A, Karki B, Katramatou AT, Keith C, Keppel C, Khachatryan M, Khachatryan V, Khanal A, Kievsky A, King D, King PM, Korover I, Kulagin SA, Kumar KS, Kutz T, Lashley-Colthirst N, Li S, Li W, Liu H, Liuti S, Liyanage N, Markowitz P, McClellan RE, Meekins D, Beck SMT, Meziani ZE, Michaels R, Mihovilovic M, Nelyubin V, Nguyen D, Nycz M, Obrecht R, Olson M, Owen VF, Pace E, Pandey B, Pandey V, Paolone M, Papadopoulou A, Park S, Paul S, Petratos GG, Petti R, Piasetzky E, Pomatsalyuk R, Premathilake S, Puckett AJR, Punjabi V, Ransome RD, Rashad MNH, Reimer PE, Riordan S, Roche J, Salmè G, Santiesteban N, Sawatzky B, Scopetta S, Schmidt A, Schmookler B, Segal J, Segarra EP, Shahinyan A, Širca S, Sparveris N, Su T, Suleiman R, Szumila-Vance H, Tadepalli AS, Tang L, Tireman W, Tortorici F, Urciuoli GM, Wojtsekhowski B, Wood S, Ye ZH, Ye ZY, Zhang J. Measurement of the Nucleon F_{2}^{n}/F_{2}^{p} Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:132003. [PMID: 35426713 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.132003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 01/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The ratio of the nucleon F_{2} structure functions, F_{2}^{n}/F_{2}^{p}, is determined by the MARATHON experiment from measurements of deep inelastic scattering of electrons from ^{3}H and ^{3}He nuclei. The experiment was performed in the Hall A Facility of Jefferson Lab using two high-resolution spectrometers for electron detection, and a cryogenic target system which included a low-activity tritium cell. The data analysis used a novel technique exploiting the mirror symmetry of the two nuclei, which essentially eliminates many theoretical uncertainties in the extraction of the ratio. The results, which cover the Bjorken scaling variable range 0.19<x<0.83, represent a significant improvement compared to previous SLAC and Jefferson Lab measurements for the ratio. They are compared to recent theoretical calculations and empirical determinations of the F_{2}^{n}/F_{2}^{p} ratio.
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- D Abrams
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Kingsville, Texas 78363, USA
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- North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, USA
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA
- King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- California State University, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
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- Mississippi State University, Mississipi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
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- Mississippi State University, Mississipi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
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- Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23669, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Mississippi State University, Mississipi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23669, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8576, Japan
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23669, USA
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Cairo University, Cairo, Giza 12613 Egypt
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Mississippi State University, Mississipi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Stony Brook, State University of New York, New York 11794, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Beer-Sheva 84190, Israel
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312 Moscow, Russia
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- Stony Brook, State University of New York, New York 11794, USA
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- Stony Brook, State University of New York, New York 11794, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada
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- Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
- Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz 55122, Germany
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Saint Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin 54115, USA
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- William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
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- University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23669, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Stony Brook, State University of New York, New York 11794, USA
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- William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Physics and Technology, 61108 Kharkov, Ukraine
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia 23504, USA
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- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Perugia and INFN, Sezione di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
- Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA
- Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA
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- Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23669, USA
- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan 49855, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
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- Stony Brook, State University of New York, New York 11794, USA
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Segarra E, Ježo T, Accardi A, Duwentäster P, Hen O, Hobbs T, Keppel C, Klasen M, Kovařík K, Kusina A, Morfín J, Muzakka K, Olness F, Schienbein I, Yu. J. Extending nuclear PDF analyses into the high-
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region. Int J Clin Exp Med 2021. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.103.114015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Detmold W, Illa M, Murphy DJ, Oare P, Orginos K, Shanahan PE, Wagman ML, Winter F. Lattice QCD Constraints on the Parton Distribution Functions of ^{3}He. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:202001. [PMID: 34110196 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.202001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The fraction of the longitudinal momentum of ^{3}He that is carried by the isovector combination of u and d quarks is determined using lattice QCD for the first time. The ratio of this combination to that in the constituent nucleons is found to be consistent with unity at the few-percent level from calculations with quark masses corresponding to m_{π}∼800 MeV. With a naive extrapolation to the physical quark masses, this constraint is consistent with, and more precise than, determinations from global nuclear parton distribution function fits through the nnnpdf framework. It is thus concretely demonstrated that lattice QCD calculations of light nuclei have imminent potential to enable more precise determinations of the u and d parton distributions in light nuclei and to reveal the QCD origins of the EMC effect.
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- William Detmold
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA
- Jefferson Laboratory, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Jefferson Laboratory, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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Segarra EP, Schmidt A, Kutz T, Higinbotham DW, Piasetzky E, Strikman M, Weinstein LB, Hen O. Neutron Valence Structure from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:092002. [PMID: 32202871 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.092002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Revised: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Mechanisms of spin-flavor SU(6) symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are studied via an extraction of the free neutron structure function from a global analysis of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data on the proton and on nuclei from A=2 (deuterium) to 208 (lead). Modification of the structure function of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei (known as the EMC effect) are consistently accounted for within the framework of a universal modification of nucleons in short-range correlated (SRC) pairs. Our extracted neutron-to-proton structure function ratio F_{2}^{n}/F_{2}^{p} becomes constant for x_{B}≥0.6, equaling 0.47±0.04 as x_{B}→1, in agreement with theoretical predictions of perturbative QCD and the Dyson-Schwinger equation, and in disagreement with predictions of the scalar diquark dominance model. We also predict F_{2}^{^{3}He}/F_{2}^{^{3}H}, recently measured, as yet unpublished, by the MARATHON Collaboration, the nuclear correction function that is needed to extract F_{2}^{n}/F_{2}^{p} from F_{2}^{^{3}He}/F_{2}^{^{3}H}, and the theoretical uncertainty associated with this extraction.
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- E P Segarra
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Duer M, Schmidt A, Pybus JR, Segarra EP, Hrnjic A, Denniston AW, Weiss R, Hen O, Piasetzky E, Weinstein LB, Barnea N, Korover I, Cohen EO, Hakobyan H, Adhikari S, Angelini G, Battaglieri M, Beck A, Bedlinskiy I, Biselli AS, Boiarinov S, Brooks W, Burkert VD, Cao F, Carman DS, Celentano A, Chetry T, Ciullo G, Clark L, Cole PL, Contalbrigo M, Cortes O, Crede V, Cruz Torres R, D'Angelo A, Dashyan N, De Sanctis E, De Vita R, Deur A, Diehl S, Djalali C, Dupre R, Duran B, Egiyan H, El Alaoui A, El Fassi L, Eugenio P, Filippi A, Forest TA, Gilfoyle GP, Giovanetti KL, Girod FX, Golovatch E, Gothe RW, Griffioen KA, Guo L, Hafidi K, Hanretty C, Harrison N, Hattawy M, Hauenstein F, Hayward TB, Heddle D, Hicks K, Holtrop M, Ilieva Y, Ireland DG, Ishkhanov BS, Isupov EL, Jo HS, Joo K, Kabir ML, Keller D, Khachatryan M, Khanal A, Khandaker M, Kim W, Klein FJ, Kubarovsky V, Kuhn SE, Lanza L, Laskaris G, Lenisa P, Livingston K, MacGregor IJD, Marchand D, Markov N, McKinnon B, Mey-Tal Beck S, Mirazita M, Mokeev V, Montgomery RA, Movsisyan A, Munoz Camacho C, Mustapha B, Nadel-Turonski P, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Osipenko M, Ostrovidov AI, Paolone M, Paremuzyan R, Park K, Pasyuk E, Patsyuk M, Phelps W, Pogorelko O, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Ripani M, Rizzo A, Rosner G, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Schmookler BA, Schumacher RA, Sharabian Y, Skorodumina I, Sokhan D, Sparveris N, Stepanyan S, Strauch S, Taiuti M, Tan JA, Tyler N, Ungaro M, Voskanyan H, Voutier E, Wang R, Wei X, Wood MH, Zachariou N, Zhang J, Zhao ZW, Zheng X. Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:172502. [PMID: 31107086 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.172502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We measured the triple coincidence A(e,e^{'}np) and A(e,e^{'}pp) reactions on carbon, aluminum, iron, and lead targets at Q^{2}>1.5 (GeV/c)^{2}, x_{B}>1.1 and missing momentum >400 MeV/c. This was the first direct measurement of both proton-proton (pp) and neutron-proton (np) short-range correlated (SRC) pair knockout from heavy asymmetric nuclei. For all measured nuclei, the average proton-proton (pp) to neutron-proton (np) reduced cross-section ratio is about 6%, in agreement with previous indirect measurements. Correcting for single-charge exchange effects decreased the SRC pairs ratio to ∼3%, which is lower than previous results. Comparisons to theoretical generalized contact formalism (GCF) cross-section calculations show good agreement using both phenomenological and chiral nucleon-nucleon potentials, favoring a lower pp to np pair ratio. The ability of the GCF calculation to describe the experimental data using either phenomenological or chiral potentials suggests possible reduction of scale and scheme dependence in cross-section ratios. Our results also support the high-resolution description of high-momentum states being predominantly due to nucleons in SRC pairs.
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- M Duer
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Nuclear Research Centre Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V Valparaíso, Chile
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117259, Russia
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
- Fairfield University, Fairfield Connecticut 06824, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V Valparaíso, Chile
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Universita' di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
- Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 83209, USA
- Lamar University, 4400 MLK Blvd, PO Box 10009, Beaumont, Texas 77710, USA
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- The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
- Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Universit'e Paris-Sud, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V Valparaíso, Chile
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- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762-5167, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
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- Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 83209, USA
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- University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA
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- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA
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- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3568, USA
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- The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762-5167, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia 23504, USA
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Universit'e Paris-Sud, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Universit'e Paris-Sud, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Universit'e Paris-Sud, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3568, USA
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117259, Russia
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
- Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- IRFU, CEA, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
- Universita di Genova, Dipartimento di Fisica, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Universit'e Paris-Sud, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Universit'e Paris-Sud, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Canisius College, Buffalo, New York 14208, USA
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- University of York, York YO10, United Kingdom
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0305, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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Geesaman DF, Reimer PE. The sea of quarks and antiquarks in the nucleon. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2019; 82:046301. [PMID: 30736022 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ab05a7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The quark and gluon structure of the proton has been under intense experimental and theoretical investigation for five decades. Even for the distributions of the well-studied valence quarks, challenges such as the value of the down quark to up quark ratio at high fractional momenta remain. Much of the sea of quark-antiquark pairs emerges from the splitting of gluons and is well described by perturbative evolution in quantum chromodynamics. However, experiments confirm that there is a non-perturbative component to the sea that is not well understood and hitherto has been difficult to calculate with ab initio non-perturbative methods. This non-perturbative structure shows up, perhaps most directly, in the flavor dependence of the sea antiquark distributions. While some of the general trends can be reproduced by models, there are features of the data that do not seem to be well described. This article discusses the experimental situation, the status of calculations and models, and the directions where these studies will progress in the near future.
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- D F Geesaman
- Argonne Associate of Global Empire, LLC, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States of America
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Modified structure of protons and neutrons in correlated pairs. Nature 2019; 566:354-358. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0925-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Patsyuk M, Hen O, Piasetzky E. Exclusive studies on short range correlations in nuclei. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920401016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Short Range Correlations (SRC) are brief fluctuations of high relative momentum nucleon pairs. Properties of SRC have important consequences for nuclear physics, high energy physics, atomic physics, and astrophysics. SRC pairs form some of the densest states of cold matter achievable on Earth, making them an ideal system to study the partonic and nucleonic degrees of freedom in nuclear systems. Hard exclusive breakup reactions, where high-energy probes scatter on SRC pairs, are used to study such properties of SRC pairs as isospin decomposition, nuclear mass and asymmetry dependence, c.m. momentum distribution. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) plays a key role in the SRC program. CLAS (CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer), located in Hall B at JLab, has almost 4πcoverage and is capable of measuring exclusive reactions of the type A(e, e’pp). We will discuss the recent experimental results from JLab and future experiments planned at JLab as well as at JINR.
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Cohen EO, Hen O, Piasetzky E, Weinstein LB, Duer M, Schmidt A, Korover I, Hakobyan H, Adhikari S, Akbar Z, Amaryan MJ, Avakian H, Ball J, Barion L, Battaglieri M, Beck A, Bedlinskiy I, Biselli AS, Boiarinov S, Briscoe W, Burkert VD, Cao F, Carman DS, Celentano A, Charles G, Chatagnon P, Chetry T, Ciullo G, Clary BA, Contalbrigo M, Crede V, Cruz Torres R, D'Angelo A, Dashyan N, De Vita R, De Sanctis E, Defurne M, Deur A, Diehl S, Djalali C, Duer M, Dupre R, Egiyan H, Ehrhart M, El Alaoui A, Fassi LE, Eugenio P, Fedotov G, Fersch R, Filippi A, Ghandilyan Y, Giovanetti KL, Girod FX, Golovatch E, Gothe RW, Griffioen KA, Hafidi K, Harrison N, Hauenstein F, Heddle D, Hicks K, Holtrop M, Ireland DG, Ishkhanov BS, Isupov EL, Jenkins D, Jo HS, Johnston S, Kabir ML, Keller D, Khachatryan G, Khachatryan M, Khandaker M, Kim A, Kim W, Klein A, Klein FJ, Korover I, Kubarovsky V, Kuhn SE, Lanza L, Lenisa P, Livingston K, MacGregor IJD, Marchand D, McKinnon B, Mey-Tal Beck S, Meyer CA, Mirazita M, Mokeev V, Montgomery RA, Movsisyan A, Munoz Camacho C, Mustapha B, Nadel-Turonski P, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Osipenko M, Ostrovidov AI, Paolone M, Paremuzyan R, Pasyuk E, Pogorelko O, Price JW, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Ripani M, Riser D, Rizzo A, Rosner G, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Schmookler BA, Schumacher RA, Sharabian YG, Sokhan D, Sparveris N, Stepanyan S, Strauch S, Taiuti M, Tan JA, Ungaro M, Voskanyan H, Voutier E, Wang R, Watts DP, Wei X, Wood MH, Zachariou N, Zhang J, Zheng X, Zhao ZW. Center of Mass Motion of Short-Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs studied via the A(e,e^{'}pp) Reaction. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:092501. [PMID: 30230869 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.092501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Short-range correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs are a vital part of the nucleus, accounting for almost all nucleons with momentum greater than the Fermi momentum (k_{F}). A fundamental characteristic of SRC pairs is having large relative momenta as compared to k_{F}, and smaller center of mass (c.m.) which indicates a small separation distance between the nucleons in the pair. Determining the c.m. momentum distribution of SRC pairs is essential for understanding their formation process. We report here on the extraction of the c.m. motion of proton-proton (pp) SRC pairs in carbon and, for the first time in heavier and ansymetric nuclei: aluminum, iron, and lead, from measurements of the A(e,e^{'}pp) reaction. We find that the pair c.m. motion for these nuclei can be described by a three-dimensional Gaussian with a narrow width ranging from 140 to 170 MeV/c, approximately consistent with the sum of two mean-field nucleon momenta. Comparison with calculations appears to show that the SRC pairs are formed from mean-field nucleons in specific quantum states.
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- E O Cohen
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V Valparaíso, Chile
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- Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- IRFU, CEA, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117259, Russia
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
- Fairfield University, Fairfield Connecticut 06824, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Universita' di Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
- Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome Italy
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V Valparaíso, Chile
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- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762-5167, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3568, USA
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762-5167, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia 23504, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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- Nuclear Research Centre Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3568, USA
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- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117259, Russia
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
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- Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
- Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome Italy
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- IRFU, CEA, Universit'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan, Armenia
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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- Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
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- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
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- Canisius College, Buffalo, New York 14208, USA
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0305, USA
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Probing high-momentum protons and neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei. Nature 2018; 560:617-621. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0400-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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I discuss recent lattice QCD studies of the gluon structure of hadrons and light nuclei. After very briefly highlighting new determinations of the gluon contributions to the nucleon’s momentum and spin, presented by several collaborations over the last year, I describe first calculations of gluon generalised form factors. The generalised transversity gluon distributions are of particular interest since they are purely gluonic; they do not mix with quark distributions at leading twist. In light nuclei they moreover provide a clean signature of non-nucleonic gluon degrees of freedom, and I present the first evidence for such effects, based on lattice QCD calculations. The planned Electron-Ion Collider, designed to access gluon structure quantities, will have the capability to test this prediction, and measure a range of gluon observables including generalised gluon distributions and transverse momentum dependent gluon distributions, within the next decade.
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Chen JW, Detmold W, Lynn JE, Schwenk A. Short-Range Correlations and the EMC Effect in Effective Field Theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:262502. [PMID: 29328704 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.262502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We show that the empirical linear relation between the magnitude of the EMC effect in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei and the short-range correlation scaling factor a_{2} extracted from high-energy quasielastic scattering at x≥1 is a natural consequence of scale separation and derive the relationship using effective field theory. While the scaling factor a_{2} is a ratio of nuclear matrix elements that individually depend on the calculational scheme, we show that the ratio is independent of this choice. We perform Green's function Monte Carlo calculations with both chiral and Argonne-Urbana potentials to verify this and determine the scaling factors for light nuclei. The resulting values for ^{3}He and ^{4}He are in good agreement with experimental values. We also present results for ^{9}Be and ^{12}C extracted from variational Monte Carlo calculations.
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- Jiunn-Wei Chen
- Department of Physics, CTS and LeCosPA, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
- ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
- ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Arrington J. Short-range correlations and their implications for isospin-dependent modification of nuclear quark distributions. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201611301011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Holt RJ. Quarks in Few Body Nuclei. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201611305011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Hen O, Sargsian M, Weinstein LB, Piasetzky E, Hakobyan H, Higinbotham DW, Braverman M, Brooks WK, Gilad S, Adhikari KP, Arrington J, Asryan G, Avakian H, Ball J, Baltzell NA, Battaglieri M, Beck A, Beck SMT, Bedlinskiy I, Bertozzi W, Biselli A, Burkert VD, Cao T, Carman DS, Celentano A, Chandavar S, Colaneri L, Cole PL, Crede V, D'Angelo A, De Vita R, Deur A, Djalali C, Doughty D, Dugger M, Dupre R, Egiyan H, El Alaoui A, El Fassi L, Elouadrhiri L, Fedotov G, Fegan S, Forest T, Garillon B, Garcon M, Gevorgyan N, Ghandilyan Y, Gilfoyle GP, Girod FX, Goetz JT, Gothe RW, Griffioen KA, Guidal M, Guo L, Hafidi K, Hanretty C, Hattawy M, Hicks K, Holtrop M, Hyde CE, Ilieva Y, Ireland DG, Ishkanov BI, Isupov EL, Jiang H, Jo HS, Joo K, Keller D, Khandaker M, Kim A, Kim W, Klein FJ, Koirala S, Korover I, Kuhn SE, Kubarovsky V, Lenisa P, Levine WI, Livingston K, Lowry M, Lu HY, MacGregor IJD, Markov N, Mayer M, McKinnon B, Mineeva T, Mokeev V, Movsisyan A, Camacho CM, Mustapha B, Nadel-Turonski P, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Osipenko M, Pappalardo LL, Paremuzyan R, Park K, Pasyuk E, Phelps W, Pisano S, Pogorelko O, Price JW, Procureur S, Prok Y, Protopopescu D, Puckett AJR, Rimal D, Ripani M, Ritchie BG, Rizzo A, Rosner G, Roy P, Rossi P, Sabatie F, Schott D, Schumacher RA, Sharabian YG, Smith GD, Shneor R, Sokhan D, Stepanyan SS, Stepanyan S, Stoler P, Strauch S, Sytnik V, Taiuti M, Tkachenko S, Ungaro M, Vlassov AV, Voutier E, Walford NK, Wei X, Wood MH, Wood SA, Zachariou N, Zana L, Zhao ZW, Zheng X, Zonta I. Momentum sharing in imbalanced Fermi systems. Science 2014; 346:614-7. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1256785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Cosyn W, Vanhalst M, Ryckebusch J. Mass dependence of short-range correlations in nuclei and the EMC effect. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2014. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20146602022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cloët IC, Bentz W, Thomas AW. Parity-violating deep inelastic scattering and the flavor dependence of the EMC effect. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 109:182301. [PMID: 23215273 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.182301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Isospin-dependent nuclear forces play a fundamental role in nuclear structure. In relativistic models of nuclear structure constructed at the quark level these isovector nuclear forces affect the u and d quarks differently, leading to nontrivial flavor-dependent modifications of the nuclear parton distributions. We explore the effect of isospin dependent forces for parity-violating deep inelastic scattering on nuclear targets and demonstrate that the cross sections for nuclei with N ≠ Z are sensitive to the flavor dependence of the EMC effect. Indeed, for nuclei like lead and gold we find that these flavor-dependent effects are large.
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- I C Cloët
- CSSM and ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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Holt RJ, Gilman R. Transition between nuclear and quark-gluon descriptions of hadrons and light nuclei. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2012; 75:086301. [PMID: 22835935 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/8/086301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We provide a perspective on studies aimed at observing the transition between hadronic and quark-gluonic descriptions of reactions involving light nuclei. We begin by summarizing the results for relatively simple reactions such as the pion form factor and the neutral pion transition form factor as well as that for the nucleon and end with exclusive photoreactions in our simplest nuclei. A particular focus will be on reactions involving the deuteron. It is noted that a firm understanding of these issues is essential for unravelling important structure information from processes such as deeply virtual Compton scattering as well as deeply virtual meson production. The connection to exotic phenomena such as color transparency will be discussed. A number of outstanding challenges will require new experiments at modern facilities on the horizon as well as further theoretical developments.
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- R J Holt
- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
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Arrington J, Rubin JG, Melnitchouk W. How well do we know the neutron structure function? PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 108:252001. [PMID: 23004587 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.252001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2011] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We present a detailed analysis of the uncertainty in the neutron F(2n) structure function extracted from inclusive deuteron and proton deep-inelastic scattering data. The analysis includes experimental uncertainties as well as uncertainties associated with the deuteron wave function, nuclear smearing, and nucleon off-shell corrections. Correctly accounting for the Q(2) dependence of the data and calculations and restricting the nuclear corrections to microscopic models of the deuteron, we find a significantly smaller uncertainty in the extracted F(2n)/F(2p) ratio than in previous analyses. In addition to yielding an improved extraction of the neutron structure function, this analysis also provides an important baseline that can be compared to future, model-independent extractions of neutron structure to examine nuclear medium effects in the deuteron.
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- J Arrington
- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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