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We derived microscopic optical potentials (OPs) for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering within the framework of chiral effective field theories at the first-order term of the spectator expansion of the Watson multiple-scattering theory and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Carlotta Giusti , Matteo Vorabbi , Paolo Finelli

We formulate a microscopic optical potential from chiral two- and three-body forces. The real and imaginary central terms of the optical potential are obtained from the nucleon self-energy in infinite matter, while the real spin-orbit term…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

A microscopic optical potential (OP) is derived from NN chiral potentials at the first-order term within the spectator expansion of the multiple scattering theory and adopting the impulse approximation. The performances of our OP are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 C. Giusti , M. Vorabbi , P. Finelli

Based on the spectator expansion of the multiple scattering series we employ a nonlocal translationally invariant nuclear density derived from a chiral next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and the very same interaction for consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Ch. Elster , M. Burrows , S. P. Weppner , K. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

Nucleus-nucleus optical potentials are constructed from an energy density functional approach first outlined by Brueckner et al. The interaction term of the energy density functional comes from the complex nucleon self-energy computed in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 T. R. Whitehead

We perform a first-principle calculation of optical potentials for nucleon elastic scattering off medium-mass isotopes. Fully based on a saturating chiral Hamiltonian, the optical potentials are derived by folding nuclear density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Matteo Vorabbi , Carlo Barbieri , Vittorio Somà , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti

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 2016-03-30 M. Vorabbi , P. Finelli , C. Giusti

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 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

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

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

Elastic scattering is a very important process to understand nuclear interactions in finite nuclei. Despite decades of efforts, the goal of reaching a coherent description of this physical process in terms of microscopic forces is still far…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Matteo Vorabbi , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti

We formulate microscopic neutron-nucleus optical potentials from many-body perturbation theory based on chiral two- and three-body forces. The neutron self energy is first calculated in homogeneous matter to second order in perturbation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

We derive ab initio optical potentials from self-consistent Green's function (SCGF) theory and compute the elastic scattering of neutrons off oxygen and calcium isotopes. The comparison with scattering data is satisfactory at low scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Idini , C. Barbieri , P. Navrátil

Calculating microscopic optical potentials for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering has already led to large body of work in the past. For folding first-order calculations the nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction and the one-body density of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 M. Burrows , Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , A. Nogga , G. Popa

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

A relativistic microscopic optical model potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering is developed based on the \emph{ab initio} relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) theory with the improved local density approximation, which is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-13 Pianpian Qin , Sibo Wang , Hui Tong , Qiang Zhao , Chencan Wang , Z. P. Li , Peter Ring

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 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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Wen-Di Chen , Hai-Rui Guo , Wei-Li Sun , Tao Ye , Yang-Jun Ying , Yin-Lu Han , Qing-Biao Shen

We investigate the nonlocality in microscopic optical potentials derived from chiral effective field theory. For this purpose we employ the Perey-Buck ansatz, which connects the energy dependence of purely local optical potentials to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Laina M. Stahulak , Jeremy W. Holt
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