In the Jefferson Lab Press Release, Nuclear Science Division scientists John Arrington and Shujie Li discuss their recent experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab, where they may have seen the first signs of three-nucleon short-range correlations.

“We’re unraveling the nucleus to find what’s missing in our understanding,” said John Arrington, Program Head of the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions program. “We know that the three-nucleon interaction is important in the description of nuclear properties, even though it’s a very small contribution. Until now, there’s never really been any indication that we’d observed them at all. This work provides a first glimpse at them.”

Read the full Jefferson Lab News article