New results from studies of two- and three-nucleon correlations in nuclei

Two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations (SRC) are clusters of nucleons, in which each of the nucleons carry a momentum greater than the Fermi momentum of the nucleus, and their total (i.e. center-of-mass) momentum is smaller than the Fermi momentum. The combination of new electron scattering data from JLab, together with the analysis of data from measurements of hadronic reactions revolutionized our understanding of two-nucleon SRCs and their impact on the nuclear wave function, and are shedding new light on studies of three-nucleon correlations. I will review selected recent experimental results and their relation to effective and ab-initio theory calculations.