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Measurement of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlation probabilities in nuclei
Physical Review Letters (2006)
  • KS Egiyan
  • NB Dashyan
  • MM Sargsian
  • MI Strikman
  • LB Weinstein
  • G Adams
  • P Ambrozewicz
  • M Anghinolfi
  • B Asavapibhop
  • G Asryan
  • H Avakian
  • H Baghdasaryan
  • N Baillie
  • JP Ball
  • NA Baltzell
  • V Batourine
  • M Battaglieri
  • I Bedlinskiy
  • M Bektasoglu
  • M Bellis
  • N Benmouna
  • AS Biselli
  • BE Bonner
  • S Bouchigny
  • S Boiarinov
  • R Bradford
  • D Branford
  • WK Brooks
  • S Bultmann
  • VD Burkert
  • C Bultuceanu
  • JR Calarco
  • SL Careccia
  • DS Carman
  • B Carnahan
  • S Chen
  • PL Cole
  • P Coltharp
  • P Corvisiero
  • D Crabb
  • H Crannell
  • JP Cummings
  • ED Sanctis
  • R DeVita
  • PV Degtyarenko
  • H Denizli
  • L Dennis
  • KV Dharmawardane
  • C Djalali
  • GE Dodge
  • J Donnelly
  • D Doughty
  • P Dragovitsch
  • M Dugger
  • S Dytman
  • OP Dzyubak
  • H Egiyan
  • L Elouadrhiri
  • A Empl
  • P Eugenio
  • R Fatemi
  • G Fedotov
  • RJ Feuerbach
  • TA Forest
  • H Funsten
  • G Gavalian
  • NG Gevorgyan
  • GP Gilfoyle
  • KL Giovanetti
  • FX Girod
  • JT Goetz
  • E Golovatch
  • RW Gothe
  • KA Griffioen
  • M Guidal
  • M Guillo
  • N Guler
  • L Guo
  • V Gyurjyan
  • C Hadjidakis
  • J Hardie
  • FW Hersman
  • K Hicks
  • I Hleiqawi
  • M Holtrop
  • J Hu
  • M Huertas
  • CE Hyde-Wright
  • Y Ilieva
  • DG Ireland
  • BS Ishkhanov
  • MM Ito
  • D Jenkins
  • HS Jo
  • K Joo
  • HG Juengst
  • JD Kellie
  • M Khandaker
  • KY Kim
  • K Kim
  • W Kim
  • A Klein
  • FJ Klein
  • A Klimenko
  • M Klusman
  • LH Kramer
  • V Kubarovsky
  • J Kuhn
  • SE Kuhn
  • S Kuleshov
  • J Lachniet
  • JM Laget
  • J Langheinrich
  • D Lawrence
  • T Lee
  • K Livingston
  • LC Maximon
  • S McAleer
  • B McKinnon
  • JWC McNabb
  • BA Mecking
  • MD Mestayer
  • CA Meyer
  • T Mibe
  • K Mikhailov
  • R Minehart
  • M Mirazita
  • R Miskimen
  • V Mokeev
  • SA Morrow
  • J Mueller
  • GS Mutchler
  • P Nadel-Turonski
  • J Napolitano
  • R Nasseripour
  • S Niccolai
  • G Niculescu
  • I Niculescu
  • BB Niczyporuk
  • RA Niyazov
  • GV O'Rielly
  • M Osipenko
  • AI Ostrovidov
  • K Park
  • E Pasyuk
  • C Peterson
  • J Pierce
  • N Pivnyuk
  • D Pocanic
  • O Pogorelko
  • E Polli
  • S Pozdniakov
  • BM Preedom
  • JW Price
  • Y Prok
  • D Protopopescu
  • LM Qin
  • BA Raue
  • G Riccardi
  • G Ricco
  • M Ripani
  • BG Ritchie
  • F Ronchetti
  • G Rosner
  • P Rossi
  • D Rowntree
  • PD Rubin
  • F Sabatie
  • C Salgado
  • JP Santoro
  • V Sapunenko
  • RA Schumacher
  • VS Serov
  • YG Sharabian
  • J Shaw
  • ES Smith
  • LC Smith
  • DI Sober
  • A Stavinsky
  • S Stepanyan
  • BE Stokes
  • P Stoler
  • S Strauch
  • R Suleiman
  • M Taiuti
  • S Taylor
  • DJ Tedeschi
  • R Thompson
  • A Tkabladze
  • S Tkachenko
  • L Todor
  • C Tur
  • M Ungaro
  • MF Vineyard
  • AV Vlassov
  • DP Weygand
  • M Williams, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • E Wolin
  • MH Wood
  • A Yegneswaran
  • J Yun
  • L Zana
  • J Zhang
Abstract
The ratios of inclusive electron scattering cross sections of 4He, 12C, and 56Fe to 3He have been measured at 1 < xB <. At Q2 > 1.4 GeV2, the ratios exhibit two separate plateaus, at 1.5 < xB < 2 and at xB > 2.25. This pattern is predicted by models that include 2- and 3-nucleon short-range correlations (SRC). Relative to A = 3, the per-nucleon probabilities of 3-nucleon SRC are 2.3, 3.1, and 4.4 times larger for A = 4, 12, and 56. This is the first measurement of 3-nucleon SRC probabilities in nuclei.
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Publication Date
January 1, 2006
Publisher Statement
Doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.082501 Copyright 2006 by The American Physical Society. http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v96/i8/e082501
Citation Information
KS Egiyan, NB Dashyan, MM Sargsian, MI Strikman, et al.. "Measurement of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlation probabilities in nuclei" Physical Review Letters Vol. 96 Iss. 8 (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_williams/99/