Probing short-range correlations in the deuteron via incoherent diffractive $J/\psi$ production with spectator tagging at the EIC

Understand

Understanding the role of Quantum Chromodynamics in generating nuclear forces is important for uncovering the mechanism of short-ranged nuclear interactions and their manifestation in short range correlations (SRC).

• The future Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US will provide an unprecedented opportunity to systematically investigate the underlying physics of SRC for energies and kinematic regions that are otherwise impossible to reach.
• We study SRCs in electron-deuteron scattering events using the Monte Carlo event generator BeAGLE.
• Specifically, we investigate the sensitivity of observables to high internal nucleon momentum in incoherent diffractive $J/\psi$ vector meson production.