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Elastic Antiproton-Nucleus Scattering from Chiral Forces

Nuclear Theory 2020-09-16 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Elastic scattering of antiprotons off 4^4He, 12^{12}C, and 16,18^{16,18}O is described for the first time with a totally microscopic approach based on the calculation of an optical potential (OP) describing the antiproton-target interaction. The OP is derived using the recent antiproton-nucleon (pˉN\bar{p}N) chiral interaction to calculate the pˉN\bar{p}N tt matrix, while the target densities are computed with the ab initio no-core shell model using chiral interactions as well. Our results are in a good agreement with the existing experimental data and the results computed at different chiral orders of the pˉN\bar{p}N interaction display the convergence pattern expected from the theory.

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@article{arxiv.1906.11984,
  title  = {Elastic Antiproton-Nucleus Scattering from Chiral Forces},
  author = {Matteo Vorabbi and Michael Gennari and Paolo Finelli and Carlotta Giusti and Petr Navrátil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11984},
  year   = {2020}
}
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