Discovery of High-momentum Nucleon Correlations in Nuclei -- an Early History

2025/04/12 by L. Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Leonid, M. Strikman +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.09337

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Abstract

We summarize the reasons for using the light-cone mechanics of nuclei for description of high-energy nuclear processes and describe the steps, which have led to the discovery of high-momentum correlations in nuclei.

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