Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter

Details Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter

2009-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1514v1

Science 320:1476-1478,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

12 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1156675

The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can form strongly correlated nucleon pairs. Scattering experiments, where a proton is knocked-out of the nucleus with high momentum transfer and high missing momentum, show that in 12C the neutron-proton pairs are nearly twenty times as prevalent as proton-proton pairs and, by inference, neutron-neutron pairs. This difference between the types of pairs is due to the nature of the strong force and has implications for understanding cold dense nuclear systems such as neutron stars.

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