High-momentum components in the ${}^4$He nucleus caused by inter-nucleon correlations

Abstract

High-momentum components of nuclei are essential for understanding the underlying inter-nucleon correlations in nuclei. We perform the comprehensive analysis for the origin of the high-momentum components of ${}^4$He in the framework of Tensor-optimized High-momentum Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics (TO-HMAMD), which is a completely variational approach as an $ab$ $initio$ theory starting from the bare nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction. The analytical derivations are provided for the nucleon momentum distribution of the Antisymmetrized Momentum Dynamics (AMD) wave functions, with subtraction of center-of-mass motion. The nucleon momentum distribution for ${}^4$He is calculated by applying a new expansion technique to our $ab$ $initio$ wave function, and agrees with the values extracted from experimental data up to the high-momentum region. Fine-grained analysis is performed for the high-momentum components in ${}^4$He with respect to different nucleon correlations. Contributions from tensor, central with short-range, and many-body correlations are extracted from the nucleon momentum distributions. The manifestation of tensor correlation around 2 fm${}^{-1}$ region is explicitly confirmed by comparing the momentum distributions predicted using different types of $NN$ interactions with and without the tensor force.

arXiv comment7 pages, 6 figures, under review in Phys. Lett. B

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