Nucleon-nucleon momentum-correlation function as a probe of the density distribution of valence neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei

Emission time sequence of neutrons and protons as probes of α-clustering structure *

“…Before demonstrating our results, we provide a brief description of the momentum correlation calculation using the LL method [54]. Momentum correlation is also known as the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) method [63], which has been extensively applied to studies of heavy-ion collision dynamics [64][65][66][67][68][69][70]. The LL method can treat particle -particle correlation functions at small relative momenta that are controlled by particles' quantum-statistical symmetry effects as well as final-state interactions [71,72].…”

Temperature and density effects on the two-nucleon momentum correlation function from excited single nuclei

“…In various studies on the momentum correlation function, impacts of the impact parameter, the total momentum of nucleon pairs, the isospin of the emission source, the nuclear symmetry energy, the nuclear equation of state (EOS) as well as the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section have been discussed in literature [32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Even more, nuclear structure effects were also carefully investigated, such as the effects from binding energy and separation energy of the nucleus [39], density distribution of valence neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei [40], as well as high momentum tail of the nucleonmomentum distribution [41] etc. Two-proton momentum correlation function was also constructed in few-body reactions as well as α-clustered nucleus induced collisions [42][43][44][45][46].…”