Exploring short-range correlation effects with quantum Monte Carlo*

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques provide a versatile and systematic approach to nuclear systems. Recent advances allow to perform calculations from light to medium-mass nuclei for a variety of nuclear Hamiltonians, including those constructed using phenomenological potentials and local interactions derived from chiral effective field theory. The fully correlated nature of the many-body wave functions employed in QMC methods allows us to properly asses the short-distance and high-momentum behavior of calculated nuclear properties. In this talk, I will present QMC results for nuclei from $^3$H to $^{40}$Ca, enabling us to explore short-range correlation effects and connect to the experimental information extracted from electron scattering.