quark cluster model. We first perform numerical evaluations in a= 2, 3, and 4 nuclei based
on realistic nuclear wave functions for the probability that a quark chosen at random in the
nucleus is found in a color singlet cluster consisting of 3, 6, 9, etc., quarks. Clustering itself is
determined by a geometrical overlap of three-quark systems that depends on a critical
distance of separation 2 R c. A systematic comparison of cluster probabilities obtained for …