A novel analysis of the effects of short range correlations in inclusive lepton scattering off nuclei

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new analysis method for inclusive lepton scattering off nuclei that accounts for short-range nucleon correlations, providing deeper insights into nuclear structure at high momentum transfer.

Contribution

It presents a novel Y-scaling approach that incorporates two- and three-nucleon correlations, improving the analysis of scattering data.

Findings

Effective extraction of nucleon-nucleon correlations from scattering data

Enhanced understanding of nuclear short-range structure

Critical evaluation of traditional Y-scaling methods

Abstract

It is shown that, if inclusive lepton scattering off nuclei at high momentum transfer is analyzed in terms of proper scaling variables, useful information on Nucleon-Nucleon short range correlations in nuclei can be obtained. The traditional approach to Y-scaling is critically analyzed and a novel approach to Y-scaling, which incorporates the effects from two- and three-nucleon correlations in nuclei, is illustrated.