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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…

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In recent years, we constructed a microscopic optical potential (OP) for elastic nucleon-nucleus ($NA$) scattering using modern approaches based on chiral theories for the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction. The OP was derived at first…

We study elastic proton-nucleus scattering at intermediate energies. The nucleon-nucleus optical potential is derived from the Bonn nucleon-nucleon potential and the Dirac-Brueckner approach for nuclear matter. Our calculations, which do…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Q. Li , R. Machleidt , R. Fritz , H. Müther , Y. Z. Zhuo

We develop for the first time a microscopic global nucleon-nucleus optical potential with quantified uncertainties suitable for analyzing nuclear reaction experiments at next-generation rare-isotope beam facilities. Within the improved…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

Homogeneous nuclear matter is investigated using the \textit{ab initio} Self-consistent Green's function (SCGF) approach with nuclear interactions based on chiral effective field theory. The employed method, which combines the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Francesco Marino , Carlo Barbieri , Gianluca Colò , Weiguang Jiang , Samuel J. Novario

Background: Elastic scattering is probably the main event in the interactions of nucleons with nuclei. Even if this process has been extensively studied in the last years, a consistent description, i.e., starting from microscopic two- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Vorabbi , P. Finelli , C. Giusti

Compton scattering on light nuclei ($A=2,3$) has emerged as an effective avenue to search for signatures of neutron polarizabilities, both spin--independent and spin--dependent ones. In this discussion I will focus on the theoretical aspect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Deepshikha Shukla

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

An {\em ab initio} (i.e., from first principles) theoretical framework capable of providing a unified description of the structure and low-energy reaction properties of light nuclei is desirable to further our understanding of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 S. Quaglioni , G. Hupin , A. Calci , P. Navratil , R. Roth

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 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 examine elastic Compton scattering from the deuteron for photon energies ranging from zero to 100 MeV, using state-of-the-art deuteron wave functions and NN-potentials. Nucleon-nucleon rescattering between emission and absorption of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Robert P. Hildebrandt , Harald W. Griesshammer , Thomas R. Hemmert

We derive a microscopic optical potential for intermediate energies using ab initio translationally invariant nonlocal one-body nuclear densities computed within the no-core shell model (NCSM) approach utilizing two- and three-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Michael Gennari , Matteo Vorabbi , Angelo Calci , Petr Navratil

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

We derive a rigorous optical potential for electron-molecule scattering including the effects of nuclear dynamics by extending the common many-body Green's function approach to optical potentials beyond the fixed-nuclei limit for molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Brand , Lorenz S. Cederbaum , Hans-Dieter Meyer

The real part of the optical potential for the nucleon-nucleus scattering at lower energies (E_i<100MeV) has been calculated including nucleonic and mesonic form factors by a double folding approach. Realistic density- and energy-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Avrigeanu , A. N. Antonov , H. Lenske , I. Stetcu

A relativistic Green's function approach to inclusive quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering is developed. The components of the hadron tensor are written in terms of the single-particle Green's function, which is expanded…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Meucci , Carlotta Giusti , Franco Davide Pacati

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

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

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