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M1 transitions from the $^6$Li($0^+;T=1$) state at 3.563 MeV to the $^6$Li($1^+$) ground state and to the $\alpha+d$ continuum are studied in a three-body model. The bound states are described as an $\alpha+n+p$ system in hyperspherical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Tursunov , P. Descouvemont , D. Baye

We solve three-nucleon Faddeev equations with nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces derived consistently in the framework of chiral perturbation theory at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion. In this first…

Background: Lithium plays an important role in nuclear astrophysics, fusion energy generation, and nuclear technology. From a theoretical point of view, the nucleus $^7$Li presents a remarkable challenge, as its bound states and resonances…

The differential cross section and the analyzing power are calculated for elastic scattering of $^6$He from a proton target using a microscopic folding optical potential, in which the $^6$He nucleus is described in terms of a $^4$He-core…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Ch. Elster , A. Orazbayev , S. P. Weppner

I summarize three recent calculations of electromagnetic reactions on deuterium in chiral perturbation theory. All of these calculations were carried out to O(Q^4), i.e. next-to-next-to-leading order. The reactions discussed here are:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Phillips

We report observables for elastic Compton scattering from $^3$He in Chiral Effective Field Theory with an explicit $\Delta(1232)$ degree of freedom ($\chi$EFT) for energies between 50 and 120 MeV. The $\gamma\,{}^3$He amplitude is complete…

We present an ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell-model description for $^{6}$Li. We study the structure of the ground state of $^{6}$Li and the impact of the symmetry-guided space selection on the charge density components for this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Dytrych , A. C. Hayes , K. D. Launey , J. P. Draayer , P. Maris , J. P. Vary , D. Langr , T. Oberhuber

Motivated by the fact that a polarized ${}^3$He nucleus behaves as an `effective' neutron target, we examine manifestations of neutron electromagnetic polarizabilities in elastic Compton scattering from the Helium-3 nucleus. We calculate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-06 Deepshikha Shukla , Andreas Nogga , Daniel R. Phillips

The elastic scattering of the halo nucleus $^6$He from heavy targets at incident energies near the Coulomb barrier displays a marked deviation from the standard Fresnel-type diffraction behavior. This deviation is due to the strong Coulomb…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Y. Kucuk , I. Boztosun , N. Keeley

It is a current important subject to clarify properties of chiral three-nucleon forces (3NFs) not only in nuclear matter but also in scattering between finite-size nuclei. Particularly for the elastic scattering, this study has just started…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Masakazu Toyokawa , Masanobu Yahiro , Takuma Matsumoto , Michio Kohno

The structure of the three-body Borromean nucleus 6He is approximated by a two-body di-neutron cluster model. The binding energy of the 2n-\alpha system is determined to obtain a correct description of the 2n-\alpha coordinate, as given by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Moro , K. Rusek , J. M. Arias , J. Gomez-Camacho , M. Rodriguez-Gallardo

Elastic scattering observables (differential cross section and analyzing power) are calculated for the reaction $^6$He(p,p)$^6$He at projectile energies starting at 71 MeV/nucleon. The optical potential needed to describe the reaction is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 S. P. Weppner , Ch. Elster

The angular distributions of elastic scattering of $^{7}$Li, as well as the lithium-induced reaction of one-nucleon transfers $^{10}$B($^{7}$Li,$^{6}$Li)$^{11}$B were measured at $E_\text{lab}$ = 58 MeV. Experiment was done using U-400…

A calculation of the deuteron polarization observables $A^d_y$, $A_{yy}$, $A_{xx}$, $A_{xz}$ and the differential cross-section for elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering at incident deuteron energies 270 and 880 MeV in lab is presented. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 M. A. Shikhalev

Low-energy cross sections for elastic scattering and recoil of protons from $^4$He nuclei (also known as $\alpha$ particles) are calculated directly by solving the Schr\"odinger equation for five nucleons interacting through accurate two-…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-17 Guillaume Hupin , Sofia Quaglioni , Petr Navrátil

We analyze 6Li elastic scattering in a wide range of incident energies (Ein), assuming the n + p + alpha + target four-body model and solving the dynamics with the four-body version of the continuum-discretized coupled-channels method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Shin Watanabe , Takuma Matsumoto , Kazuyuki Ogata , Masanobu Yahiro

For the first time, elastic pion-nucleon scattering is analyzed in the framework of chiral perturbation theory up to fourth order with explicit $\Delta$ degrees of freedom. The analysis is performed within the heavy-baryon expansion as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-15 Dmitrij Siemens

We examine manifestations of neutron electromagnetic polarizabilities in coherent Compton scattering from the Helium-3 nucleus. We calculate $\gamma ^3$He elastic scattering observables using chiral perturbation theory to next-to-leading…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-06 Deepshikha Choudhury , Andreas Nogga , Daniel R. Phillips

The elastic scattering for $^6$Li+$^{64}$Ni system was measured in the bombarding energy range of 13 MeV $\leq$ $E_{lab}$ $\leq$ 26 MeV. A phenomenological optical model analysis was performed and the behaviour of the surface strengths of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Biswas , Subinit Roy , M. Sinha , M. K. Pradhan , A. Mukherjee , P. Basu , H. Majumdar , K. Ramachandran , A. Shrivastava

We employ the chiral nucleon-nucleon potential derived using the method of unitary transformation up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) to study bound and scattering states in the two-nucleon system. The predicted partial wave phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Epelbaum , H. Kamada , A. Nogga , H. Witala , W. Gloeckle , Ulf-G. Meissner