Abstract
Abstract The nuclear single-particle spectral function is considered in the region of high momentum and high removal energy. For these kinematical conditions, far away from the quasi-particle peak, the spectral function is expected to be dominated by nucleon-nucleon correlations. It has been previously argued that the spectral function can be written as a convolution between the two-body relative momentum distribution and the corresponding centre-of-mass distribution of the correlated pairs which characterize the structure of the ground state in this energy-momentum region. It is shown that the convolution model can be microscopically derived from the Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone (BBG) expansion. At the same time, this result also allows us to establish a direct link between the spectral function and the defect function of the BBG theory. From a numerical comparison with the microscopic spectral function the convolution model turns out to be highly accurate in the relevant momentum and energy range.
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