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The isospin and neutron-to-proton excess dependence of short-range correlations

Jan Ryckebusch (UGent) , Wim Cosyn (UGent) , Sam Stevens, Corneel Casert (UGent) and Jannes Nys (UGent)
(2019) PHYSICS LETTERS B. 792. p.21-28
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We provide a systematic study of the isospin composition and neutron-to-proton (N/Z) ratio dependence of nuclear short-range correlations (SRC) across the nuclear mass table. We use the low-order correlation operator approximation (LCA) to compute the SRC contribution to the single-nucleon momentum distributions for 14 different nuclei from A=4 to A=208. Ten asymmetric nuclei are included for which the neutrons outnumber the protons by a factor of up to 1.54. The computed momentum distributions are used to extract the pair composition of the SRC. We find that there is a comprehensive picture for the isospin composition of SRC and their evolution with nucleon momentum. We also compute the non-relativistic kinetic energy of neutrons and protons and its evolution with nuclear mass A and N/Z. Confirming the conclusions from alternate studies it is shown that the minority species (protons) become increasingly more short-range correlated as the neutron-to-proton ratio increases. We forge connections between measured nucleon-knockout quantities sensitive to SRC and single-nucleon momentum distributions. It is shown that the LCA can account for the observed trends in the data, like the fact that in neutron-rich nuclei the protons are responsible for an unexpectedly large fraction of the high-momentum components.
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Nuclear momentum distributions, Nuclear reaction theory, Nuclear short-range correlations, Asymmetric nuclei, GROUND-STATE, KNOCKOUT, NUCLEI

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Ryckebusch, Jan, et al. “The Isospin and Neutron-to-Proton Excess Dependence of Short-Range Correlations.” PHYSICS LETTERS B, vol. 792, 2019, pp. 21–28, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.016.
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Ryckebusch, J., Cosyn, W., Stevens, S., Casert, C., & Nys, J. (2019). The isospin and neutron-to-proton excess dependence of short-range correlations. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 792, 21–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.016
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Ryckebusch, Jan, Wim Cosyn, Sam Stevens, Corneel Casert, and Jannes Nys. 2019. “The Isospin and Neutron-to-Proton Excess Dependence of Short-Range Correlations.” PHYSICS LETTERS B 792: 21–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.016.
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Ryckebusch, Jan, Wim Cosyn, Sam Stevens, Corneel Casert, and Jannes Nys. 2019. “The Isospin and Neutron-to-Proton Excess Dependence of Short-Range Correlations.” PHYSICS LETTERS B 792: 21–28. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.016.
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Ryckebusch J, Cosyn W, Stevens S, Casert C, Nys J. The isospin and neutron-to-proton excess dependence of short-range correlations. PHYSICS LETTERS B. 2019;792:21–8.
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J. Ryckebusch, W. Cosyn, S. Stevens, C. Casert, and J. Nys, “The isospin and neutron-to-proton excess dependence of short-range correlations,” PHYSICS LETTERS B, vol. 792, pp. 21–28, 2019.
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