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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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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…

A state-of-the-art microscopic global nucleon-nucleus optical potential has been developed by Whitehead, Lim, and Holt (WLH) within the framework of many-body perturbation theory, incorporating realistic nuclear interactions derived from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Bing Wang , Dong Bai , Yi Xu

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

We present a determination of optical potentials for $^{10}$Be-nucleus collisions using the double-folding method to compute the real part and Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations to derive the imaginary part. As microscopic inputs we use…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-29 V. Durant , P. Capel

We derived an analytical formula for the optical force acting on a small anisotropic chiral particle. The behavior of chiral particles is qualitatively different from achiral particles due to new chirality dependent terms which couple…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kun Ding , Jack Ng , Lei Zhou , C. T. Chan

The microscopic nucleus-nucleus optical potential is constructed basing on two patterns for real and imaginary parts, each calculated in the framework of microscopic models and multiplied by two normalizing factors, the free parameters,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Hanna , K. V. Lukyanov , V. K. Lukyanov , B. Slowinski , E. V. Zemlyanaya

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 P. Finelli , M. Vorabbi , C. 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 2017-11-22 M. Vorabbi , P. Finelli , C. Giusti

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 present a determination of optical potentials for $^4$He-target collisions using the double-folding method. We use chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with state-of-the-art…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 V. Durant , P. Capel
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