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

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.

14 pages, 14 figures, Extended version of a presentation given by CBM at the "Mini-symposium on Nuclear Structure at Short Distances" held within the "American Physical Society April Meeting", Denver, Colorado (USA), 2-5 May 2009. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, vol. 54 n. 4