Realistic Nuclear Wave functions and Heavy Ion Collisions

TL;DR

This paper explores how recent experimental evidence of nuclear short-range correlations influences the modeling of complex nuclear wave functions, highlighting the impact of tensor correlations on nuclear pair ratios and reaction simulations.

Contribution

It provides a calculation of potential energy contributions considering tensor correlations, revealing significant deviations from simple pair counting methods.

Findings

Tensor correlations produce a pp to pn pair ratio of about 1/9.

Strong tensor correlations significantly alter nuclear pair distributions.

Implications for Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear reactions are discussed.

Abstract

We discuss the implications of recent experimental evidence of nuclear Short Range Correlations (SRCs) on the modeling of the wave function of complex nuclei. We perform a calculation of potential energy contributions of pp and pn pairs in nuclei, showing that the presence of strong tensor correlations produce a ratio between the twos of about 1/9, which strongly deviates from the combinatorial counting of the number of pairs. We also discuss implications for the production of Monte Carlo configuration for the simulation of nuclear reactions involving complex nuclei.