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A relativistic distorted-wave impulse-approximation model to quasielastic neutral-current neutrino-nucleus scattering is developed, using the relativistic mean field theory for the bound state and taking into account the final state…

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Nucleon total reaction and neutron total cross sections to 300 MeV for 12C and 208Pb, and for 65 MeV spanning the mass range, are predicted using coordinate space optical potentials formed by full folding of effective nucleon-nucleon…

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In order to test the $^{16}$C internal wave function, we perform microscopic coupled-channels (MCC) calculations of the $^{16}$C($0_1^+ \to 2_1^+$) inelastic scattering by $^{208}$Pb target at $E/A$=52.7 MeV using the antisymmetrized…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Takashina , Y. Kanada-En'yo , Y. Sakuragi

Background: Effective interactions for nucleon-nucleus ($NA$) elastic scattering from first principles require the use of the same nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction in the structure and reaction calculations, and a consistent treatment of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 R. B. Baker , B. McClung , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , S. P. Weppner , M. Burrows , G. Popa

Neutron total reaction cross sections at 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, and 75 MeV from nuclei 12C, 28Si, 56Fe, 90Zr, and 208Pb have been measured and are compared with (microscopic) optical model predictions. The optical potentials were obtained in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Amos , S. Karataglidis

We present an analysis of elastic and quasielastic parity-violating (PV) electron scattering processes. These reactions can help to constrain the weak neutral current form factors of the nucleon that play an essential role in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-27 R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

In this work we present a framework that allows to solve the Faddeev equations for three-nucleon scattering using the wave-packet continuum-discretization method. We perform systematic benchmarks using results in the literature and study in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Sean B. S. Miller , Andreas Ekström , Kai Hebeler

Thermal neutron total scattering experiments of light and heavy water were reproduced using the CSNS in-house Monte Carlo thermal neutron transport code, Prompt, with a focus on the instrumental detector response and the accurate derivation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 Ni Yang , Zi-Yi Pan , Ming Tang , Wen Yin , Xiao-Xiao Cai

A microscopic calculation of the reaction cross-section for nucleon-nucleus scattering has been performed by explicitly coupling the elastic channel to all particle-hole (p-h) excitation states in the target and to all one-nucleon pickup…

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A variational technique to describe the ground and scattering states below the break-up threshold for a three-nucleon system is developed. The method consists in expanding the wave function in terms of correlated Harmonic Hyperspherical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Kievsky , M. Viviani , S. Rosati

An open source software package for simulating thermal neutron propagation in geometry is presented. In this system, neutron propagation can be treated by either the particle transport method or the ray-tracing method. Supported by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zi-Yi Pan , Ni Yang , Ming Tang , Peixun Shen , Xiao-Xiao Cai

For ultracold neutrons with a kinetic energy below 10 neV, strong scattering, characterized by $2\pi l_{c} / \lambda\leq 1$, can be obtained in metamaterials of C and $^7$Li. Here $l_{c}$ and $\lambda$ are the coherent scattering mean free…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-18 Zhehui Wang , Marcel Demarteau , C. L. Morris , Yanhua Shih

Calculations of neutral-current neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections are important for interpreting low- and intermediate-energy neutrino data, where terrestrial measurements remain limited. The first observation of coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Muhammad Farooq , Shakeel Mahmood , Muhammad Faisal Khan

Distance-dependent phase shifts, amplitude functions, and radial wave functions for neutron-alpha elastic scattering are studied using the Variable Phase Approach. The microscopic KKNN potential is employed to calculate scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Anil Khachi

With the aim at quantitatively investigating the longstanding problem concerning the effect of short range nucleon-nucleon correlations on scattering processes at high energies, the total neutron-nucleus cross section is calculated within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Alvioli , C. Ciofi degli Atti , I. Marchino , V. Palli , H. Morita

We give an overview of the theoretical description of nuclear reactions involving weakly-bound nuclei. Some of the more widespread reaction formalisms employed in the analysis of these reactions are briefly introduced, including various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 A. M. Moro , J. Casal , M. Gomez-Ramos

The 15N(p,n) reaction is a promising candidate for the production of monoenergetic neutrons with energies of up to 5.7 MeV at the facilities where the T(p,n)3He reaction cannot be used. The characteristic properties of this reaction were…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-11-08 Erik Poenitz , Ralf Nolte , Dankwart Schmidt , Guochang Chen

A non perturbative renormalization scheme for Nucleon-Nucleon interaction based on boundary conditions at short distances is presented and applied to the One Pion Exchange Potential. It is free of off-shell ambiguities and ultraviolet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Pavon Valderrama , E. Ruiz Arriola

Background: Inelastic neutrino-nucleus scattering through the weak neutral-current plays important role in stellar environment where transport of neutrinos determine the rate of cooling. Since there are no direct experimental data on…

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