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PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.104.034311
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- National Science Foundation [PHY-1713901, PHY-2013047, PHY-1913069]
- NUCLEI SciDAC Collaboration under U.S. Department of Energy MSU [RC107839-OSU]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics [de-sc0018083]
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Recent experiments have isolated processes where short-range correlation (SRC) physics is dominant and well explained by SRC phenomenology. The renormalization group (RG) evolution shows a compelling picture where SRCs are components in the nuclear wave function at high RG resolution, but shift to reaction operators at lower resolution. This shift does not change measured observables, and the experimental consequences can be explained using properties of nucleon-nucleon interactions such as the tensor force.
Recent experiments have succeeded in isolating processes for which short-range correlation (SRC) physics is dominant and well accounted for by SRC phenomenology. But an alternative and compelling picture emerges from renormalization group (RG) evolution to low RG resolution. At high RG resolution, SRCs are identified as components in the nuclear wave function with relative pair momenta greater than the Fermi momentum. Scale separation results in wave-function factorization that can be exploited with phenomenologies such as the generalized contact formalism or the low-order correlation operator approximation. Evolution to lower resolution shifts SRC physics from nuclear structure to the reaction operators without changing the measured observables. We show how the features of SRC phenomenology manifested at high RG resolution are cleanly identified at low RG resolution using simple two-body operators and local-density approximations with uncorrelated wave functions, all of which can be systematically generalized. We verify that the experimental consequences to date follow directly at low resolution from well-established properties of nucleon-nucleon interactions such as the tensor force. Thus the RG reconciles the contrasting pictures of the same experiment and shows how to get correct results using wave functions without SRC components. Our demonstration has implications for the analysis of knockout reactions for which SRC physics is not cleanly isolated.
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