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Long Range Outlook for Short-Range Correlations

Nadia Fomin·Or Hen·Julian Kahlbow·Dien Nguyen·Jackson Pybus·Noemi Rocco·Misak Sargsian·Sandra Nathaly Santiesteban·Ronen Weiss·Douglas W. Higinbotham·Lawrence Weinstein·Devi Adhikari·Hisham Albataineh·Massimiliano Alvioli·Lorenzo Andreoli·John Arrington·Carlos Ayerbe Gayoso·A. B. Balantekin·Carlos Bertulani·Hem Bhatt·Sudip Bhattarai·William J. Briscoe·Sayak Chatterjee·Hector Chinchay·E. O. Cohn·Wim Cosyn·Silviu Covrig Dusa·Natalya Dashyan·Bhesha Raj Devkota·Meytal Duer·Burcu Duran·Mostafa Elaasar·Cristiano Fanelli·Muhammad Farooq·Ishara P. Fernando·Caleb Fogler·Filippo Fornetti·Tobias Frederico·Daniel Galaviz·Dave Gaskell·Prakassh Gautam·Probir Ghoshal·Tyler J. Hague·Jens-Ole Hansen·Florian Hauenstein·Chueng-Ryong Ji·H. S. Jo·Muhammad Junaid·Dustin Keller·T. V. Kolar·Igor Korover·Andrea Lagni·Chhetra Lama·Shujie Li·Valery E. Lyubovitskij·Ralph Marinaro III·Malek Mazouz·Michael McCaughan·Bryan McKinnon·Gerald Miller·Taya Mineeva·Arthur Mkrtchyan·Hamlet Mkrtchyan·Peter Monaghan·Casey Morean·Sooriyaarachchilage Aruni Nadeeshani·Gunawardhana Waduge Nuwan Chaminda·Emanuele Pace·Bishnu Pandey·Valerii Panin·Parshkin·Igor·Stefanos Paschalis·Saori Pastore·Maria Patsyuk·Churamani Paudel·Marina Petri·Eliazer Piasetzky·Jiwan Poudel·Hang Qi·Sagar Regmi·Matteo Rinaldi·Jose Luis Rodriguez-Sánchez·Dmitry Romanov·Giovanni Salmé·Axel Schmidt·Mitra H. Shabestari·Albert Shahinyan·Abhyuday Sharda·Alexander Somov·Igor Strakovsky·Holly Szumila-Vance·V. Tadevosyan·Buddhiman Tamang·Hakob Voskanyan·Ron Wagner·Uditha Weerasinghe·Natalie Wright·E. A. Wrightson·Manuel Xarepe
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Abstract

Short range correlated (SRC) N N pairs are pairs of nucleons with high relative momentum (prel > kF where kF ~ 250 MeV/c is the Fermi momentum in medium to heavy nuclei) and lower center of mass momentum. The motivation for studying SRC pairs ranges from a desire to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the many-body nuclear wave-function at high-resolution to searching for explicit QCD-dynamics effects within the nuclear medium, not to mention connections to many other open problems in nuclear physics. Exploring short-range correlations was one of the physics motivations for building CEBAF (now Jefferson Lab). Scientists used the high luminosity and high energy of this cutting-edge machine to find kinematics that cleanly showed the signals of short-range correlations. This paved the way in the last two decades for tremendous progress understanding these correlations. This paper reviews recent progress and highlights outstanding questions and areas that need further study.

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Nadia Fomin, Or Hen, Julian Kahlbow, Dien Nguyen, Jackson Pybus, Noemi Rocco, Misak Sargsian, Sandra Nathaly Santiesteban, Ronen Weiss, Douglas W. Higinbotham, Lawrence Weinstein, Devi Adhikari, Hisham Albataineh, Massimiliano Alvioli, Lorenzo Andreoli, John Arrington, Carlos Ayerbe Gayoso, A. B. Balantekin, Carlos Bertulani, Hem Bhatt, Sudip Bhattarai, William J. Briscoe, Sayak Chatterjee, Hector Chinchay, E. O. Cohn, Wim Cosyn, Silviu Covrig Dusa, Natalya Dashyan, Bhesha Raj Devkota, Meytal Duer, Burcu Duran, Mostafa Elaasar, Cristiano Fanelli, Muhammad Farooq, Ishara P. Fernando, Caleb Fogler, Filippo Fornetti, Tobias Frederico, Daniel Galaviz, Dave Gaskell, Prakassh Gautam, Probir Ghoshal, Tyler J. Hague, Jens-Ole Hansen, Florian Hauenstein, Chueng-Ryong Ji, H. S. Jo, Muhammad Junaid, Dustin Keller, T. V. Kolar, Igor Korover, Andrea Lagni, Chhetra Lama, Shujie Li, Valery E. Lyubovitskij, Ralph Marinaro III, Malek Mazouz, Michael McCaughan, Bryan McKinnon, Gerald Miller, Taya Mineeva, Arthur Mkrtchyan, Hamlet Mkrtchyan, Peter Monaghan, Casey Morean, Sooriyaarachchilage Aruni Nadeeshani, Gunawardhana Waduge Nuwan Chaminda, Emanuele Pace, Bishnu Pandey, Valerii Panin, Parshkin, Igor, Stefanos Paschalis, Saori Pastore, Maria Patsyuk, Churamani Paudel, Marina Petri, Eliazer Piasetzky, Jiwan Poudel, Hang Qi, Sagar Regmi, Matteo Rinaldi, Jose Luis Rodriguez-Sánchez, Dmitry Romanov, Giovanni Salmé, Axel Schmidt, Mitra H. Shabestari, Albert Shahinyan, Abhyuday Sharda, Alexander Somov, Igor Strakovsky, Holly Szumila-Vance, V. Tadevosyan, Buddhiman Tamang, Hakob Voskanyan, Ron Wagner, Uditha Weerasinghe, Natalie Wright, E. A. Wrightson, Manuel Xarepe. 2026-01-14. Long Range Outlook for Short-Range Correlations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09568

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