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Recent BNL and Jlab data provided new evidence on two nucleon correlations (2NC) in nuclei. The data confirm the validity of the convolution model, describing the spectral function (SF) of a correlated pair moving in the mean field with high and low relative and center-of-mass (cm) momenta, respectively. The model is built assuming that the wave function (WF) of a nucleus A, describing a configuration where the cm momentum of a correlated pair is low and its relative momentum is high, factorizes into the product of the two-body WF and that of the A-2 system. Such a factorization has been shown to occur in nuclear matter (NM). Here it is shown that few-body systems exhibit factorization, which seems to be therefore a general property, to be reproduced also in studies of the WF of finite nuclei.
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Presented by S. Scopetta at the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August – 3 September 2010.
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Atti, C.C.d., Kaptari, L.P., Morita, H. et al. Short Range Correlations and Wave Function Factorization in Light and Finite Nuclei. Few-Body Syst 50, 243–246 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-010-0127-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-010-0127-3