QCD with and in nuclei: color transparency and short-range correlations in nuclei - theory, observations, directions for further studies

TL;DR

This paper reviews theoretical concepts and experimental observations of short-range correlations and color transparency in nuclei, discussing implications for quark-gluon structure and future research directions with hadronic probes.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of theoretical ideas, experimental findings, and future prospects for studying SRCs and color transparency in nuclear physics.

Findings

Observation of short-range correlations in nuclei

Implications of color transparency for pion processes

Proposed future studies using hadronic projectiles

Abstract

We summarize basic theoretical ideas which let to the observation of the short-range correlations (SRC) in nuclei using hard probes and outline directions for probing quark-gluon structure of SRCs. Implications of the observations of color transparency for processes involving pions are reviewed. Open questions and directions for further studies of color transparency phenomena using hadronic projectiles are presented using as an example the PANDA detector at FAIR.