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Short Range Correlations: The Important Role of Few-Body Dynamics in Many-Body Systems

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For many-body systems with short range interaction a series of relations were derived connecting many properties of the system to the dynamics of a closely packed few-body subsystems. Some of these relations were experimentally verified in ultra cold atomic gases. Here we shall review the implications of these developments on our understanding of nuclear one and two-body momentum distributions, and on the electron scattering Coulomb sum rule.

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  1. Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, 91904, Givaat-Ram, Jerusalem, Israel

    Ronen Weiss & Nir Barnea

  2. Department of Physics, NRCN, P.O.B. 9001, 84190, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Ehoud Pazy

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Weiss, R., Pazy, E. & Barnea, N. Short Range Correlations: The Important Role of Few-Body Dynamics in Many-Body Systems. Few-Body Syst 58, 9 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-016-1165-2

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