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We compare three methods to calculate the nucleon-nucleon t-matrix based on the three-dimensional formulation of J. Golak et al., Phys. Rev. C 81, 034006, (2010). In the first place we solve a system of complex linear inhomogeneous…

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The dispersive optical model (DOM) is employed to simultaneously describe elastic nucleon scattering data for ${}^{40}$Ca, ${}^{48}$Ca, and ${}^{208}$Pb as well as observables related to the ground state of these nuclei, with emphasis on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 W. H. Dickhoff

Elastic scattering of alpha-particle and some tightly-bound light nuclei has shown the pattern of rainbow scattering at medium energies, which is due to the refraction of the incident wave by a strongly attractive nucleus-nucleus potential.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dao T. Khoa , W. von Oertzen , H. G. Bohlen , S. Ohkubo

Background: For its simplicity, the eikonal method is the tool of choice to analyze nuclear reactions at high energies ($E>100$ MeV/nucleon), including knockout reactions. However, so far, the effective interactions used in this method are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 Chloë Hebborn , Filomena M. Nunes

We present a global nonlocal and dispersive optical model potential for neutron scattering off spherical nuclei with incident energies up to 250 MeV. This optical model is an extension of the non-dispersive Perey-Buck potential. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 B. Morillon , G. Blanchon , P. Romain , H. F. Arellano

The optical potential is a powerful instrument for calculations on a wide variety of nuclear reactions, in particular, for quasi-elastic lepton-nucleus scattering. Phenomenological optical potentials are successful in the description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-13 Carlotta Giusti

The elastic and inelastic proton scattering on $^{18,20,22}$O nuclei are studied in a folding model formalism of nucleon-nucleus optical potential and inelastic form factor. The DDM3Y effective interaction is used and the ground state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Gupta , E. Khan , Y. Blumenfeld

We formulate and implement a microscopic framework to derive an optical potential from the solution to an effective Hamiltonian and use it to calculate neutron scattering cross sections for the deformed nuclei $^{24}$Mg, $^{48}$Cr and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 J. Boström , B. G. Carlsson , A. Idini

Background: Calculating microscopic effective interactions (optical potentials) for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering has already in the past led to a large body of work. For first-order calculations a nucleon-nucleon (\textit{NN})…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 M. Burrows , R. B. Baker , Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

The numerical algorithm of the inverse quantum scattering is developed. This algorithm is based on the Marchenko theory, and includes three steps. The first one is the algebraic Pade approximation of the unitary S-matrix, what is realized…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. A. Khokhlov , V. A. Knyr

We have investigated the role of isospin asymmetry of the $NN$ effective interaction in the context of $NA$ elastic scattering. To this purpose we represent the {\it in-medium} $g$ matrix as an admixture of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 J. I. Fuentealba-Bustamante , H. F. Arellano

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

Recently a variety of studies have shown the importance of including non-locality in the description of reactions. The goal of this work is to revisit the phenomenological approach to determining non-local optical potentials from elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 A. E. Lovell , P. -L. Bacq , P. Capel , F. M. Nunes , L. J. Titus

Electron collisions with O$_2$ at scattering energies below 1 eV are studied in the fixed-nuclei approximation for a range of internuclear separations using the ab initio molecular R-matrix method. The $^2\Pi_g$ scattering eigenphases and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Michal Tarana , Chris H. Greene

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 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

Based on the spectator expansion of the multiple scattering series we employ a chiral next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) nucleon-nucleon interaction on the same footing in the structure as well as in the reaction calculation to obtain an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Ch. Elster , M. Burrows , R. B. Baker , S. P. Weppner , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

Nonlocality in the scattering potential leads to an integro-differential equation.In this equation nonlocality enters through an integral over the nonlocal potential kernel. The resulting Schroedinger equation is usually handled by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 N. J. Upadhyay , A. Bhagwat , B. K. Jain

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

The optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering at $65$~MeV are calculated for $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O, $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{56}$Fe, $^{90}$Zr and $^{208}$Pb in first order multiple scattering theory, following the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 C. R. Chinn , Ch. Elster , R. M. Thaler , S. P. Weppner