[Jlab-seminars] Today's Physics Seminar: Florian Hauenstein; Short-Range-Correlations: The Past, the Present and the Future

[Stephanie Tysor]

Physics Seminar
Florian Hauenstein
Old Dominion University
Short-Range-Correlations: The Past, the Present and the Future

Abstract:

Protons and neutrons, or also known as nucleons, are bound together to make the nuclei of all atoms. The usual and simple picture of this binding is an "effective" interaction of one nucleon with all the surrounding nucleons. This picture is highly successful to describe most scattering experiments where a projectile is scattered by a nucleus to reveal its inner structure. However, several experiments in the past showed that the simple effective interaction is not the full picture. Indeed, some of the nucleons like to be paired together for a short time at a short range. We are calling these pairs \Short Range Correlations" (SRC) and they have been intensively investigated by experiments in the past 20 years. Short range correlations play a non-negligible role in how nucleons are bound in nuclei.

In my talk, I will present our current picture of nuclei and the SRC pairs within, and show you what we have learned so far from various experiments in the past decades. SRC pairs are also connected to other phenomena in nuclear physics and I will explain some of these. Furthermore, I will give an outlook of future experiments to deepen our knowledge of SRC pairs.


Friday, December 6, 2019
1:00pm
CEBAF Center L102


Stephanie Tysor
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Physics Division
Hall A & C Administrative Assistant
(office)757-269-6005<callto:757-269-6005> (fax)757-269-5235<callto:757-269-5235>

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