Using Generalized Contact Formalism and Real Photon Beams to Explore Short Range Nuclear Structure

Generalized Contact Formalism (GCF), a scale-separated theoretical framework for describing short-range correlations (SRC) in nuclei, has proven to be a powerful tool for interpreting electron scattering experiments. From these experiments, GCF has helped us learn about isospin structure of SRC pairs, nuclear spectral functions, short-range nucleon-nucleon (NN) forces, and other phenomena. A key prediction is that, for sufficiently hard scattering, the interaction of the probe and a nucleon can be factorized from the interactions of nucleons within a SRC pair, which themselves factorize from the interactions between the pair and the rest of the nucleus. The upcoming Hall D Short- Range Correlations / Color Transparency Experiment will be able to put this prediction to the test by probing short range correlations using a real photon beam. This talk will discuss the application of GCF to a real photon beam and predictions of this experiment through a GCF context.