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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

The microscopic coupled-channel calculation of inelastic proton scattering is performed for the study of neutron excitations in $2^+_1$ states of $^{18}$O, $^{10}$Be, $^{12}$Be, and $^{16}$C. Proton-nucleus potentials in the coupled-channel…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo , Kazuyuki Ogata

Background: Separable interactions have a long history in nuclear physics. In the last few years, separable expansions have been used to represent the optical potential between a nucleon (proton or neutron) and a target. Purpose: We explore…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 Michael Quinonez , Linda Hlophe , Filomena Nunes

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 calculate the $^{16}$O spectral function by combining coupled-cluster theory with a Gaussian integral transform and by expanding the integral kernel in terms of Chebyshev polynomials to allow for a quantification of the theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-04 Joanna E. Sobczyk , Sonia Bacca

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

We review recent progress and motivate the need for further developments in nuclear optical potentials that are widely used in the theoretical analysis of nucleon elastic scattering and reaction cross sections. In regions of the nuclear…

A recently modified method to enable low-energy nuclear scattering results to be extracted from the discrete energy levels of the target-projectile clusters confined by harmonic potential traps is tested. We report encouraging results for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-30 Xilin Zhang , S. R. Stroberg , P. Navrátil , Chan Gwak , J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , J. D. Holt

The nonrelativistic full-folding optical model approach for nucleon-nucleus scattering is extended into the relativistic regime. In doing so, kinematical issues involving the off-shell Lorentz boost of the colliding particles between the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. F. Arellano , H. V. von Geramb

The determination of nucleus-nucleus potentials is important not only to describe the properties of the colliding system, but also to extract nuclear-structure information and for modelling nuclear reactions for astrophysics. We present the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-26 V. Durant , P. Capel , L. Huth , A. B. Balantekin , A. Schwenk

A brief overview of various approaches to the optical-model description of nuclei is presented. A survey of some of the formal aspects is given which links the Feshbach formulation for either the hole or particle Green's function to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Willem H. Dickhoff , Robert J. Charity

Spectroscopic and optical properties of nanosystems and point defects are discussed within the framework of Green's function methods. We use an approach based on evaluating the self-energy in the so-called GW approximation and solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Murilo L. Tiago , James R. Chelikowsky

We employ interactions from chiral effective field theory and compute the binding energies and low-lying excitations of calcium isotopes with the coupled-cluster method. Effects of three-nucleon forces are included phenomenologically as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-07-19 G. Hagen , M. Hjorth-Jensen , G. R. Jansen , R. Machleidt , T. Papenbrock

The relativistic optical model potential (OMP) for nucleon-nucleus scattering is investigated in the framework of Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach using the Bonn-B One-Boson- Exchange potential for the bare nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Ruirui Xu , Zhongyu Ma , E. N. E. van Dalen , H. Muther

Background: Clustering phenomena in $N \neq Z$ nuclei provide an opportunity to understand the interplay between cluster and nucleon degrees of freedom. Purpose:To study resonances in the $^{18}$O spectrum, populated in $^{14}$C+$\alpha$…

One important ingredient for many applications of nuclear physics to astrophysics, nuclear energy, and stockpile stewardship are cross sections for reactions of neutrons with rare isotopes. Since direct measurements are often not feasible,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Linda Hlophe , Charlotte Elster

The (semi-)microscopic double-folding nucleus-nucleus optical potentials are suggested for consideration of inelastic scattering with excitation of collective nuclear states by using the adiabatic approach and the elastic scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. M. Hanna , K. V. Lukyanov , V. K. Lukyanov , Z. Metawei , B. Slowinski , E. V. Zemlyanaya

We extend the spherical coupled-cluster ab initio method for open-shell nuclei where two nucleons are removed from a shell subclosure. Following the recent implementation of the two-particle attached approach [Phys. Rev.C 110 (2024) 4,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Francesco Marino , Francesca Bonaiti , Sonia Bacca , Gaute Hagen , Gustav R. Jansen

Background: Effective interactions for nucleon-nucleus ($NA$) elastic scattering from first principles require the use of the same nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction in the structure and reaction calculations, and a consistent treatment of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 R. B. Baker , B. McClung , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , S. P. Weppner , M. Burrows , G. Popa

Based on the Watson expansion of the multiple scattering series, we employ a nonlocal translationally invariant nuclear density derived within the symmetry-adapted no-core shell model (SA-NCSM) framework from a chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 R. B. Baker , Ch. Elster , T. Dytrych , K. D. Launey