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The charge and magnetic form factors of light nuclei, mainly for mass numbers A<=4, provide a sensitive test of our understanding of nuclei. A number of "exact" calculations of the wave functions starting from the nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Ingo Sick

We review the experimental and theoretical status of elastic electron scattering and elastic low-energy photon scattering (with both real and virtual photons) from the nucleon. As a consequence of new experimental facilities and new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Earl Hyde-Wright , Kees de Jager

The NEUT event generator is a widely-used tool to simulate neutrino interactions for energies between 10s of MeV and a few TeV. NEUT plays a crucial role in neutrino oscillation analyses for the T2K and Hyper-K experiments, providing the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 S. Dolan , J. McElwee , S. Bolognesi , Y. Hayato , K. McFarland , G. Megias , K. Niewczas , L. Pickering , J. Sobczyk , L. Thompson , C. Wret

Developing high-precision models of the nuclear force and propagating the associated uncertainties in quantum many-body calculations of nuclei and nuclear matter remain key challenges for ab initio nuclear theory. In the present work we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Pengsheng Wen , Jeremy W. Holt , Maggie Li

We outline inconsistencies in presently used models for high energy nuclear scattering, which make their application quite unreliable. Many "successes" are essentially based on an artificial freedom of parameters, which does not exist when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Werner , H. J. Drescher , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog

A general purpose, self-adapting, Monte Carlo (MC) event generator (simulator) is described. The high efficiency of the MC, that is small maximum weight or variance of the MC weight is achieved by means of dividing the integration domain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Jadach

A key diagnostic in warm-dense matter (WDM) experiments is X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS), but its interpretation is often limited by complex instrument effects and the high computationally expensive combinations of microscopic models with…

The eikonal model must be denoted as strongly preferable for the analysis of elastic high-energy hadron collisions. The given approach allows to derive corresponding impact parameter profiles that characterize important physical features of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-08 Vojtech Kundrat , Jan Kaspar , Milos Lokajicek

Inclusive electron scattering from nuclei at large x and $Q^2$ is the result of a reaction mechanism that includes both quasi--elastic scattering from nucleons and deep inelastic scattering from the quark constituents of the nucleons. Data…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 Nadia Fomin

We present the EpIC Monte Carlo event generator for exclusive processes sensitive to generalised parton distributions. EpIC utilises the PARTONS framework, which provides a flexible software architecture and a variety of modelling options…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 E. C. Aschenauer , V. Batozskaya , S. Fazio , K. Gates , H. Moutarde , D. Sokhan , H. Spiesberger , P. Sznajder , K. Tezgin

A detailed study of correlated scalars, produced in collisions of nuclei and associated with the $\sigma$-field fluctuations, $(\delta \sigma)^2= < \sigma^2 >$, at the QCD critical point (critical fluctuations), is performed on the basis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Antoniou , Y. F. Contoyiannis , F. K. Diakonos , G. Mavromanolakis

Precision tests of the standard model are essential for constraining models of new physics. Neutrino-electron elastic scattering offers a clean probe into many electroweak effects that are complimentary to the more canonical measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andre de Gouvea , James Jenkins

The analyses of elastic collisions of charged nucleons have been based standardly on West and Yennie formula. However, this approach has been shown recently to be inadequate from experimental as well as theoretical points of view. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-02 Jan Kaspar , Vojtech Kundrat , Milos Lokajicek

We describe the universal Monte-Carlo event generator WHIZARD. The program automatically computes complete tree-level matrix elements, integrates them over phase space, evaluates distributions of observables, and generates unweighted event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-16 Wolfgang Kilian , Thorsten Ohl , Jurgen Reuter

A general introduction is given in chapter 1. Chapter 2 outlines the main features of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the theoretical motivations for going beyond it. We subsequently provide brief descriptions of a few…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-30 Andreas Papaefstathiou

We apply to the nucleon-nucleus inelastic process a fully coherent microscopic multiple scattering approach. Our study addresses the complexities inherent in characterizing inelastic scattering events, offering a comprehensive theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

Neutrino physics is advancing into a precision era with the construction of new experiments, particularly in the few GeV energy range. Within this energy range, neutrinos exhibit diverse interactions with nucleons and nuclei. This study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-01 Joachim Kopp , Noemi Rocco , Zahra Tabrizi

Event-driven molecular dynamics is a valuable tool in condensed and soft matter physics when particles can be modeled as hard objects or more generally if their interaction potential can be modeled in a stepwise fashion. Hard spheres model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cristiano De Michele

Sequential Monte Carlo is a family of algorithms for sampling from a sequence of distributions. Some of these algorithms, such as particle filters, are widely used in the physics and signal processing researches. More recent developments…

Computation · Statistics 2013-06-25 Yan Zhou