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Feshbach's projection formalism in the particle-hole model space leads to a microscopic description of scattering in terms of the many-body self-energy. To investigate the feasibility of this approach, an optical potential for O-16 is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 C. Barbieri , B. K. Jennings

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 present nucleon elastic scattering calculation based on Green's function formalism in the Random-Phase Approximation. For the first time, the Gogny effective interaction is used consistently throughout the whole calculation to account…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Blanchon , M. Dupuis , H. F. Arellano , N. Vinh Mau

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

Optical potentials are a standard tool in the study of nuclear reactions, as they describe the interaction between a target nucleus and a projectile. The use of phenomenological optical potentials built using experimental data on stable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 G. H. Sargsyan , G. Potel , K. Kravvaris , J. E. Escher

We present a determination of optical potentials for $^4$He-target collisions using the double-folding method. We use chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with state-of-the-art…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 V. Durant , P. Capel

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

Double--folded optical $\alpha$--nucleus potentials can be used to calculate elastic scattering cross sections in a wide mass-- and energy region. Because of the systematic behavior of the potential parameters we are able to obtain reliable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 P. Mohr , H. Abele , U. Atzrott , G. Staudt , R. Bieber , K. Grün , H. Oberhummer , T. Rauscher , E. Somorjai

The optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering at $65$~MeV are calculated for $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O, $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{56}$Fe, $^{90}$Zr and $^{208}$Pb in first order multiple scattering theory, following the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 C. R. Chinn , Ch. Elster , R. M. Thaler , S. P. Weppner

A previously derived semi-microscopic analysis based on the Double Folding Model, for alpha-particle elastic scattering on A~100 nuclei at energies below 32 MeV, is extended to medium mass A ~ 50-120 nuclei and energies from ~13 to 50 MeV.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Avrigeanu , A. C. Obreja , F. L. Roman , V. Avrigeanu , W. von Oertzen

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

We propose a method for reconstruction of the optical potential from scattering data. The algorithm is a two-step procedure. In the first step the real part of the potential is determined analytically via solution of the Marchenko equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Khokhlov , V. A. Knyr

We investigate the nonlocal structure of optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering based on microscopic approaches. To this purpose, \emph{in-medium} folding optical potentials are calculated in momentum space and their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 H. F. Arellano , G. Blanchon

The optical potential is a powerful instrument for calculations on a wide variety of nuclear reactions, in particular, for quasi-elastic lepton-nucleus scattering. Phenomenological optical potentials are successful in the description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-13 Carlotta Giusti

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…

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

A generalized optical potential for elastic scattering induced by light nuclei is calculated within the Feshbach projection operator method. The model explicitly takes into account the contribution of the projectile break-up continuum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-28 A. S. Denikin , V. I. Zagrebaev , P. Descouvemont

The microscopic nucleus-nucleus optical potential is constructed basing on two patterns for real and imaginary parts, each calculated in the framework of microscopic models and multiplied by two normalizing factors, the free parameters,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Hanna , K. V. Lukyanov , V. K. Lukyanov , B. Slowinski , E. V. Zemlyanaya

A microscopic analysis of the optical potentials (OPs) and cross sections of quasielastic scattering of $^{12,14}$Be on $^{12}$C at 56 MeV/nucleon and on protons at energy near 700 MeV is carried out. For lower energy scattering the real…

Compound resonances in nucleon-nucleus scattering are related to the discrete spectrum of the target. Such resonances can be studied in a unified and general framework by a scattering model that uses sturmian expansions of postulated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Amos , L. Canton , G. Pisent , J. P. Svenne , D. van der Knijff