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Strongly-interacting dark matter can be accumulated in large quantities inside the Earth, and for dark matter particles in a few GeV mass range, it can exist in large quantities near the Earth's surface. We investigate the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Yohei Ema , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray

Parity violating electron nucleus scattering is a clean and powerful tool for measuring the spatial distributions of neutrons in nuclei with unprecedented accuracy. Parity violation arises from the interference of electromagnetic and weak…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Horowitz

New physics contributions to the (anti)neutrino-nucleon elastic scattering process can be constrained by precision measurements, with controlled Standard Model uncertainties. In a large class of new physics models, interactions involving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Oleksandr Tomalak , Minerba Betancourt , Kaushik Borah , Richard J. Hill , Thomas Junk

The four-body equations of Alt, Grassberger and Sandhas are solved for the neutron-${}^3$H scattering at energies above the four-nucleon breakup threshold. The accuracy and practical applicability of the employed complex energy method is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-13 A. Deltuva , A. C. Fonseca

We calculate the differential scattering rate for thermal neutrinos in a hot and dilute gas of interacting neutrons using linear response theory. The dynamical structure factors for density and spin fluctuations of the strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-08 Paulo F. Bedaque , Sanjay Reddy , Srimoyee Sen , Neill C. Warrington

We discuss the current understanding of nuclear scattering at very high energies. We point out several serious inconsistencies in nowadays models, which provide big problems for any interpretation of data at high energy nuclear collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 K. Werner , H. J. Drescher , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog

The nucleon-nucleon (NN) t-matrix is calculated directly as function of two vector momenta for different realistic NN potentials. To facilitate this a formalism is developed for solving the two-nucleon Lippmann-Schwinger equation in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 I. Fachruddin , Ch. Elster , W. Glöckle

Theoretical uncertainties of various types are discussed for the nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering observables at the incoming nucleon laboratory energies up to 200 MeV. We are especially interested in the statistical errors arising from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-11 R. Skibinski , Yu. Volkotrub , J. Golak , K. Topolnicki , H. Witala

The extraction of neutrino oscillation parameters often requires the unambiguous identification of the reaction mechanism to be used for the energy determination. The use of nuclear targets and of beams with broad energy distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Ulrich Mosel

Neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering provides a unique laboratory to study the quantum mechanical coherency effects in electroweak interactions, towards which several experimental programs are being actively pursued. We report results of our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-10 S. Kerman , V. Sharma , M. Deniz , H. T. Wong , J. -W. Chen , H. B. Li , S. T. Lin , C. -P. Liu , Q. Yue

The information about sizes and nuclear density distributions in unstable (radioactive) nuclei is usually extracted from the data on interaction of radioactive nuclear beams with a nuclear target. We show that in the case of nucleus-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-26 C. Merino , I. S. Novikov , Yu. M. Shabelski

The status of experiments on determination of level density and partial widths of the nuclear reaction products emission in diapason of nucleon binding energy is presented. There are analyzed the sources and magnitude of probable…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-25 A. M. Sukhovoj , V. A. Khitrov

We show that using parameters consistent with the charge symmetry violating difference between the strong nn and pp scattering lengths provides significant constraints on the amplitude for the dd -> alpha pi0 reaction.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-26 A. C. Fonseca , R. Machleidt , G. A. Miller

Understanding the few-nucleon system remains one of the challenges in modern nuclear and hadron physics. Observables in few-nucleon scattering processes are sensitive probes to study the two and many-body interactions between nucleons in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-04-28 J. G. Messchendorp

This study explores the role of information entropy in understanding nuclear density distributions, including both stable configurations and non-traditional structures such as neutron halos and $\alpha$-clustering. By quantifying the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Wei-Hu Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

Possibilities to extract information on the strange form factors of the nucleon from neutrino (antineutrino) inelastic scattering on nuclei, in an energy range from 200 MeV to 1 GeV and more, are investigated in detail. All calculations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 W. M. Alberico , M. B. Barbaro , S. M. Bilenky , J. A. Caballero , C. Giunti , C. Maieron , E. Moya de Guerra , J. M. Udias

I review the main features of the nuclear response extracted from electron scattering data. The emerging picture clearly shows that the shell model does not provide a fully quantitative description of nuclear dynamics. On the other hand,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Omar Benhar

The formation of $\alpha$-particle clusters on the surface of heavy nuclei is described in a generalized relativistic mean-field model with explicit cluster degrees of freedom. The effects on the size of the neutron skin of Sn nuclei and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Stefan Typel

The dynamics of scattering on light nuclei is numerically expensive using standard methods. Fortunately, recent developments allow one to factor the relevant quantities for a given probe into a convolution of an $n$-body Transition Density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Alexander Long , Harald W. Griesshammer

This review presents some of the challenges in constructing models of atomic nuclei starting from theoretical descriptions of the strong interaction between nucleons. The focus is on statistical computing and methods for analyzing the link…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Andreas Ekström