Realistic Nuclear Wave functions and Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

We discuss the implications of recent experimental evidence of nuclear Short Range Correlations (SRCs) on the modeling of the wave function of complex nuclei. We perform a calculation of potential energy contributions of pp and pn pairs in nuclei, showing that the presence of strong tensor correlations produce a ratio between the twos of about 1/9, which strongly deviates from the combinatorial counting of the number of pairs. We also discuss implications for the production of Monte Carlo configuration for the simulation of nuclear reactions involving complex nuclei.

3 pages, 2 figures; presented by M. Alvioli at the HPC-Europa2 Meeting, Montpellier 14-16 October 2009 - to appear in "Science and Supercomputing in Europe - report 2009"