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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…
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Cluster Perturbation Theory (CPT) is a computationally economic method commonly used to estimate the momentum and energy resolved single-particle Green's function. It has been used extensively in direct comparisons with experiments that…
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