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Modern Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) calculations are very successful in describing various properties of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter. Within BHF theory a microscopic optical potential (MOP) for nucleon-nucleus scattering is…

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The R-matrix method has been used for theoretical calculation of electron collision with atoms and molecules for long years. The method was also formulated to treat photoionization process, however, its application has been mostly limited…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 Motomichi Tashiro

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

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

The sensitivity of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering observables to the off-shell structure of nucleon-nucleon t-matrices, derived from realistic NN potentials, is investigated within the context of a full-folding model based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. P. Weppner , Ch. Elster , D. Hueber

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

The density distributions of $^{10}$Be and $^{11}$Be nuclei obtained within the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) model and the generator coordinate method (GCM) are used to calculate the microscopic optical potentials (OPs) and cross sections of…

Accurately modelling cold and ultracold reactive collisions occuring over deep potential wells, such as \ce{D+ + H2 -> H+ + HD}, requires the development of new theoretical and computational methodologies. One potentially useful framework…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 Laura K. McKemmish , Jonathan Tennyson

Recently, a new approach for solving the three-body problem for (d,p) reactions in the Coulomb-distorted basis in momentum space was proposed. Important input quantities for such calculations are the scattering matrix elements for proton-…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Hlophe , V. Eremenko , Ch. Elster , F. M. Nunes , G. Arbanas , J. E. Escher , I. J. Thompson

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

We investigate the role of high momentum components of optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering and its incidence on their nonlocal structure in coordinate space. The study covers closed-shell nuclei with mass number in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 H. F. Arellano , G. Blanchon

We formulate microscopic optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering from chiral two- and three-nucleon forces. The real and imaginary central terms of the optical potentials are obtained from the nucleon self energy in infinite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-24 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

Angular distributions of the elastic and inelastic deuteron-nucleus scattering off $^{24}$Mg, $^{28}$Si, $^{58}$Ni, $^{90}$Zr, $^{116}$Sn, and $^{208}$Pb have been measured at a beam energy of 98 MeV/nucleon, with the goal of constraining…

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…

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The structure of the exotic $^{8}$B nucleus is studied by means of elastic scattering, as well as its breakup on nuclear targets. We present microscopic calculations of the optical potentials (OPs) and cross sections of elastic scattering…

The influence of the energy dependence of the free NN t-matrix on the optical potential of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering is investigated within the context of a full-folding model based on the impulse approximation. The treatment of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner

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

A microscopic study of proton elastic scattering from unstable nuclei at intermediate energies using a relativistic formalism is presented. We have employed both the original relativistic impulse approximation (IA1) and the generalised…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 W. A. Yahya , B. I. S. van der Ventel , R. A. Bark , B. C. Kimene Kaya

We discuss the derivation of an equivalent \textit{l}-independent polarization potential for use in the optical Schr\"{o}dinger equation that describes the elastic scattering of heavy ions. Three diffferent methods are used for this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 W. H. Z. Cardenas , M. S. Hussein , L. F. Canto , J. Lubian

We present a new algebraic method for solving the inverse problem of quantum scattering theory based on the Marchenko theory. We applied a triangular wave set for the Marchenko equation kernel expansion in a separable form. The separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 N. A. Khokhlov , L. I. Studenikina