Speaker
Prof.
Eliezer Piasetzky
(School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)
Description
Recent advances in the study of the short-range structure of nuclei indicate that about 25% of nucleons in medium to heavy nuclei have momentum greater than Fermi momentum (k > kF). These high-momentum nucleons are found to be predominantly short-range correlated proton-neutron pairs, created by the short-range tensor interaction. Since these high momentum nucleons significantly increase the average kinetic energy on nucleons in symmetric nuclear matter but not in pure-neutron matter, they should decrease the value of the kinetic part of the nuclear symmetry energy. In this talk I will review results from recent studies of correlations in nuclei and and their potential implications on astronomical object denser than nuclei.
Primary author
Prof.
Eliezer Piasetzky
(School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)
