Discovery of High-momentum Nucleon Correlations in Nuclei -- an Early History

Abstract

We summarize the reasons for using the light-cone mechanics of nuclei for description of high-energy nuclear processes and describe the steps, which have led to the discovery of high-momentum correlations in nuclei.

Comments: Submitted to Acta Physica Polonica B special volume dedicated to Dmitry Diakonov, Victor Petrov and Maxim Polyakov