arXiv · nucl-th/9411005
Momentum and Energy Distributions of Nucleons in Finite Nuclei due to Short-Range Correlations
Abstract
The influence of short-range correlations on the momentum and energy distribution of nucleons in nuclei is evaluated assuming a realistic meson-exchange potential for the nucleon-nucleon interaction. Using the Green-function approach the calculations are performed directly for the finite nucleus $^{16}$O avoiding the local density approximation and its reference to studies of infinite nuclear matter. The nucleon-nucleon correlations induced by the short-range and tensor components of the interaction yield an enhancement of the momentum distribution at high momenta as compared to the Hartree-Fock description. These high-momentum components should be observed mainly in nucleon knockout reactions like $(e,e'p)$ leaving the final nucleus in a state of high excitation energy. Our analysis also demonstrates that non-negligible contributions to the momentum distribution should be found in partial waves which are unoccupied in the simple shell-model. The treatment of correlations beyond the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation also yields an improvement for the calculated ground-state properties.
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H. Müther, A. Polls, W. H. Dickhoff. 1994-11-08. Momentum and Energy Distributions of Nucleons in Finite Nuclei due to Short-Range Correlations. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.51.3040
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