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A microscopic optical potential based on a chiral model is used as a starting point for studying kaonic atoms levels. We add to this potential a phenomenological part fitted to the experimentally known shifts and widths of kaonic levels.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Garcia-Recio , J. Nieves , E. Oset , A. Ramos

We construct nucleonic microscopic optical potentials by combining the Green's function approach with the coupled-cluster method for $\rm{^{40}Ca}$ and $\rm{^{48}Ca}$. For the computation of the ground-state of $\rm{^{40}Ca}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-30 J. Rotureau , P. Danielewicz , G. Hagen , G. R. Jansen , F. M. Nunes

We present a determination of optical potentials using the double-folding method based on chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with dispersion relations to constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Victoria Durant , Pierre Capel , Achim Schwenk

We develop a method to construct a microscopic optical potential from chiral interactions for nucleon-nucleus scattering. The optical potential is constructed by combining the Green's function approach with the coupled-cluster method. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-17 J. Rotureau , P. Danielewicz , G. Hagen , F. Nunes , T. Papenbrock

We compute the isospin-asymmetry dependence of microscopic optical model potentials from realistic chiral two- and three-body interactions over a range of resolution scales $\Lambda \simeq 400-500$\,MeV. We show that at moderate projectile…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-15 J. W. Holt , N. Kaiser , G. A. Miller

This chapter presents an overview of the optical model description of nucleon-nucleus scattering and reactions based on fundamental nuclear two-body and many-body forces. The chapter begins with a historical review followed by a discussion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-09 J. W. Holt , T. R. Whitehead

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

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

The determination of nucleus-nucleus potentials is important not only to describe the properties of the colliding system, but also to extract nuclear-structure information and for modelling nuclear reactions for astrophysics. We present the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-26 V. Durant , P. Capel , L. Huth , A. B. Balantekin , A. Schwenk

A global nucleon-nucleus optical potential for elastic scattering has been produced which replicates experimental data to high accuracy and compares well with other recently formulated potentials. The calculation that has been developed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-06 S. P. Weppner , R. B. Penney , G. W. Diffendale , G. Vittorini

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

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

In the theoretical analysis of high-energy elastic nucleon scattering one starts commonly from the description based on the validity of optical theorem, which allows to derive the value of total cross section directly from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-23 Milos V. Lokajicek , Vojtech Kundrat

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Miao Qi , Li-Li Chen , Li-Gang Cao , Feng-Shou Zhang , Xin-Le Shang , Wei Zuo , U. Lombardo

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

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

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

The $K^-$ optical potential in the nuclear medium is evaluated self consistently from a free-space $K^-N$ $t$ matrix constructed within a coupled-channel chiral approach to the low-energy $\bar K N$ data. The chiral-model parameters are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Cieply , E. Friedman , A. Gal , J. Mares

A compelling feature of relativistic mean-field phenomenology has been the reproduction of spin-orbit splittings in finite nuclei after fitting only to equilibrium properties of infinite nuclear matter. This successful result occurs when…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Furnstahl , John J. Rusnak , Brian D. Serot

Calculations are made of the $K^{+}+^{12}$C, $^{40}$Ca differential elastic scattering cross sections at the beam momenta 0.635, 0.715, and 0.8 GeV/c. To this end the microscopic optical potential derived in the high-energy approximation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 V. K. Lukyanov , E. V. Zemlyanaya , K. V. Lukyanov , K. M. Hanna