Bound-Pion Absorption byC12and Nuclear Short-Range Correlations

Abstract
The absorption of stopped negative pions by C12 inducing nucleon pair emission is studied. The three-body final-state scattering includes a two-body residual interaction and an optical potential. We find that agreement of this model with experiment cannot be obtained without including Jastrow-type short-range correlations with dominant momentum components between 0.3 and 0.4 GeVc.