Short-range nucleon correlations in niclei and quantum chromodynamics

The problem of existence of short-range small-nucleon correlations in nuclei is discussed. It is assumed that in a wide kinematic region quark confinement can be taken into account when considering the nucleus as a multinucleon systems in which the short-range interaction between nucleons is described by the perturbation theory (PT) of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The relativistic deuteron thetry is considered in detail. The deuteron wave function at sufficiently large nucleon pulses is determined within the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) perturabation theory (PT). It is shown that the short-range small-nucleon correlations are the basic source of cumulative particles at least in the case of light nuclei. In heavy nuclei approximately 30-40% of nucleons have pulses higher than the Fermi pulse