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The effective interaction between a nucleon and a nucleus is one of the most important ingredients for reaction theories. Theoretical formulations were introduced early by Feshbach and Watson, and efforts of deriving and computing those…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-23 R. B. Baker , M. Burrows , Ch. Elster , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa , S. P. Weppner

Few years ago we started the investigation of microscopic Optical Potentials (OP) in the framework of chiral effective field theories and published our results in a series of manuscripts. Starting from the very first work, where a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 P. Finelli , M. Vorabbi , C. Giusti

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

Based on the spectator expansion of the multiple scattering series we employ a chiral next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) nucleon-nucleon interaction on the same footing in the structure as well as in the reaction calculation to obtain an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Ch. Elster , M. Burrows , R. B. Baker , S. P. Weppner , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

Nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions based on chiral effective theories are commonly used in ab initio calculations of light nuclei. Here we present a study based on three different NN interactions (up to next-to-next-to-leading order) for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-23 R. B. Baker , M. Burrows , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , G. Popa , S. P. Weppner

In a previous series of papers we investigated the domain of applicability of chiral potentials to the construction of a microscopic optical potential (OP) for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering. The final expression of the OP was a folding…

The energy- and density-dependent single-particle potential for nucleons is constructed in a medium of infinite isospin-symmetric nuclear matter starting from realistic nuclear interactions derived within the framework of chiral effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-24 J. W. Holt , N. Kaiser , G. A. Miller , W. Weise

Goal of this work is the consistent description of elastic Compton scattering from the single nucleon and the deuteron. The theoretical framework chosen is Chiral Perturbation Theory, which is the low-energy formulation of Quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert P. Hildebrandt

We present the first results of a comprehensive microscopic approach to describe nucleus-nucleus elastic collisions by means of an optical potential derived at first order in multiple-scattering theory and computed by folding the projectile…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

We present a determination of optical potentials using the double-folding method based on chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with dispersion relations to constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Victoria Durant , Pierre Capel , Achim Schwenk

A global nucleon-nucleus optical potential for elastic scattering has been produced which replicates experimental data to high accuracy and compares well with other recently formulated potentials. The calculation that has been developed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-06 S. P. Weppner , R. B. Penney , G. W. Diffendale , G. Vittorini

The $^6$He+$^{12}$C elastic scattering data at beam energies of 3, 38.3 and 41.6 MeV/nucleon are studied utilizing the microscopic optical potentials obtained by a double-folding procedure and also by using those inherent in the high-energy…

Optical model potentials for elastic nucleon nucleus scattering are calculated for a number of target nuclides from a full-folding integral of two different realistic target density matrices together with full off-shell nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner , C. R. Chinn

In this work the elastic scattering of two nucleons is calculated in chiral effective field theory at next-to-leading order taking into account the coupled N$\Delta$-, $\Delta$N- and $\Delta\Delta$-channels. To solve the coupled channel…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-28 Susanne Strohmeier , Norbert Kaiser

Elastic scattering of antiprotons off $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{16,18}$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.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

Background: Calculating microscopic effective interactions (optical potentials) for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering has already in the past led to a large body of work. For first-order calculations a nucleon-nucleon (\textit{NN})…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 M. Burrows , R. B. Baker , Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

Comparisons are made between results of calculations for intermediate energy nucleon-nucleus scattering for 12C, 16O, 40Ca, 90Zr, and 208Pb, using optical potentials obtained from global Dirac phenomenology and from a microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. K. Deb , B. C. Clark , S. Hama , K. Amos , S. Karataglidis , E. D. Cooper

The ability of the Gogny forces of the D1 family to describe the nucleon-nucleus scattering is studied. To this end, we use an optical model potential built up using a semi-microscopic nuclear matter approach. The real and imaginary parts…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-15 Juan Lopez-Moraña , Xavier Viñas

We construct a microscopic optical potential including breakup effects for elastic scattering of weakly-binding projectiles within the Glauber model, in which a nucleon-nucleus potential is derived by the $g$-matrix folding model. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-23 Shoya Ogawa , Ryo Horinouchi , Masakazu Toyokawa , Takuma Matsumoto

Three-body nuclear reactions in two-nucleon plus core systems are described in the framework of exact scattering equations including the core excitation. A nucleon-core optical potential is constructed that can be easily adjusted to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-18 A. Deltuva