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We review recent claims of the existence of deeply bound kaonic states in nuclei. Also we study in details the (K-,p) reaction on C12 with 1 GeV/c momentum kaon beam, based on which a deep kaon nucleus optical potential was claimed in [1].…
Central nucleon-nucleon potentials involving forbidden states are obtained for the Gaussian, exponential, and Yukawa type. The parameters of interaction are obtained by fitting the scattering phase shifts for energies up to 500 MeV,…
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…
Several boson exchange potentials, describing the NN interaction $T_\ell\le 300$ MeV with high quality, are extended in their range of applicability as NN optical models with complex local or separable potentials in r-space or as complex…
We study phenomenologically a $\Xi^-$ production spectrum of the $^9$Be($K^-$, $K^+$) reaction at 1.8 GeV/$c$ within the distorted-wave impulse approximation using the optimal Fermi-averaged $K^- p \to K^+ \Xi^-$ amplitude. We attempt to…
We suggest that superscaling in electroweak interactions with nuclei, namely the observation that the reduced electron-nucleus cross sections are to a large degree independent of the momentum transfer and of the nuclear species, can be used…
The main progress in the field of nucleon-nucleon (NN) potentials, which we have seen in recent years, is the construction of some very quantitative (high-quality/high-precision) NN potentials. These potentials will serve as excellent input…
This study provides an improved understanding of the penetration probabilities (PPs) in nuclear reactions of light nuclei by correcting the assumptions used in the conventional Gamow factor. The Gamow factor effectively describes the PP in…
A phase-space representation of nuclear interactions, which depends on the distance $\vec{r}$ and relative momentum $\vec{p}$ of the nucleons, is presented. A method is developed that permits to extract the interaction $V(\vec{r},\vec{p})$…
Nucleon pole contribution in the $pp\to ppK^+K^-$ reaction below the threshold of the production of the $\phi$ meson is studied within the effective Lagrangian approach. It is assumed that the $K^- p$ final state originates from the decay…
Theoretical modeling of nucleus-nucleus collision often is based on the nucleus-nucleus potential. One of the advanced methods for constructing this potential is the semi-microscopical double-folding model with the M3Y-Paris NN-forces.…
The production and propagation of kaons and antikaons has been studied in symmetric nucleus-nucleus collisions in the SIS energy range. The ratio of the excitation functions of K^+ production in Au+Au and C+C collisions increases with…
We investigate the production of a cascade hyperon ($\Xi$) and bound $\Xi^-$ hypernuclei in the $(K^-,K^+)$ reaction on proton and nuclear targets, respectively, within a covariant effective Lagrangian model. The $K^+\Xi^-$ production…
The nuclear interactions of atomic and low energy antiprotons are studied. Measurements of level shifts and widths in the lightest elements are analyzed and compared with new results obtained in heavy nuclei. Simple geometric properties of…
The dependence of $K^+$ production on the nuclear equation of state is investigated in heavy ion collisions. An increase of the excitation function of $K^+$ multiplicities obtained in heavy ($Au+Au$) over light ($C+C$) systems when going…
We study theoretically medium effects on $\Xi^-$ production in the ($K^-$, $K^+$) reaction, using the optimal Fermi-averaging procedure which describes the Fermi motion of a nucleon on the on-energy-shell $K^-p\to K^+\Xi^-$ reaction…
We study the process of nuclear fusion at low energies in a medium using the second order time dependent perturbation theory. We consider a specific process which involves fusion of a low energy proton with a Nickel nucleus. The reaction…
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…
The optical potential without any free parameters for $^7$Li-nucleus interaction system is studied in a microscopic approach. It is obtained by folding the microscopic optical potentials of the constituent nucleons of $^{7}$Li over their…
A simple partial wave amplitude analysis of $\overline{p}p \rightarrow K^-K^+$ has been performed for data in the range $p_{\rm lab}$ = 360 -- 1000 MeV/$c$. In this low momentum interval only partial wave amplitudes with $J$ equal to 0, 1…