2016/07/31 by Jiunn-Wei Chen, William Detmold, J. E. Lynn +3 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational physics #Materials science #Mathematics #Monte Carlo method #Nuclear physics #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Range (aeronautics) #Scaling #Scattering #Statistical physics #Statistics #hep-lat #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.119.262502
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 262502 (2017) · 8 pages, 4 figures, including the Supplemental Material, PRL version
openalex publication_date 2017/12/29 · arxiv created 2017/12/30 · arxiv updated 2018/01/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We show that the empirical linear relation between the magnitude of the EMC effect in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei and the short-range correlation scaling factor a2 extracted from high-energy quasielastic scattering at x≥1 is a natural consequence of scale separation and derive the relationship using effective field theory. While the scaling factor a2 is a ratio of nuclear matrix elements that individually depend on the calculational scheme, we show that the ratio is independent of this choice. We perform Green's function Monte Carlo calculations with both chiral and Argonne-Urbana potentials to verify this and determine the scaling factors for light nuclei. The resulting values for 3He and 4He are in good agreement with experimental values. We also present results for 9Be and 12C extracted from variational Monte Carlo calculations.