Role of Short Range Correlations in the Neutron Skin

Recent experiments and many-body calculations indicate that approximately 20\% of the nucleons in medium and heavy nuclei $A\ge 12$ are part of short-range correlated (SRC) primarily neutron-proton . Previous work found that using chiral dynamics to account for the formation of np pairs due to the effects of iterated and irreducible two-pion exchange leads to values consistent with the 20\% level. Here chiral dynamics is applied to study how these correlations influence the calculations of neutron radii of nuclei.