Short range correlations in nuclei and nuclear matter

Abstract

Abstract Short range correlations in nuclei and nuclear matter arise from the strong repulsion of the nuclear interaction at short distances. The existence of these correlations has been confirmed in a variety of nuclear experiments with electroweak and hadronic probes. The theoretical and experimental efforts in the last decade have focused on quantifying short-range correlations and, in particular, their isospin dependence. Here, I will analyze and summarise some of the recent conclusions in the literature using as a baseline a theoretical method, based on many-body Green’s functions theory, and a single quantity, the one-body momentum distribution.