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We apply to the nucleon-nucleus inelastic process a fully coherent microscopic multiple scattering approach. Our study addresses the complexities inherent in characterizing inelastic scattering events, offering a comprehensive theoretical…

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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…

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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

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

Optical model potentials for elastic nucleon nucleus scattering are calculated for a number of target nuclides from a full-folding integral of two different realistic target density matrices together with full off-shell nucleon-nucleon…

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

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

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

The nonrelativistic full-folding optical model approach for nucleon-nucleus scattering is extended into the relativistic regime. In doing so, kinematical issues involving the off-shell Lorentz boost of the colliding particles between the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. F. Arellano , H. V. von Geramb

We calculate elastic electron-deuteron scattering in a chiral effective field theory approach for few-nucleon systems based on a modified Weinberg power counting. We construct the current operators and the deuteron wave function at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Markus Walzl , Ulf-G. Meißner

The averaged effective two-body interaction (\textit{AEI}) which can be generated through the lowest order constrained variational (\textit{LOCV}) method for symmetric nuclear matter (\textit{SNM}) with the input \textit{Reid}68…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-29 M. Rahmat , M. Modarres

We present nucleon elastic scattering calculation based on Green's function formalism in the Random-Phase Approximation. For the first time, the Gogny effective interaction is used consistently throughout the whole calculation to account…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Blanchon , M. Dupuis , H. F. Arellano , N. Vinh Mau

The real part of the optical potential for the nucleon-nucleus scattering at lower energies (E_i<100MeV) has been calculated including nucleonic and mesonic form factors by a double folding approach. Realistic density- and energy-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Avrigeanu , A. N. Antonov , H. Lenske , I. Stetcu

Microscopic optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus (NA) scattering obtained from the full folding of the effective g matrices, solutions of the Bruckner-Bethe-Goldstone equation, with the densities of the target, are applied to the case of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Karataglidis , M. B. Chadwick

We discuss optical potentials for the nuclear elastic scattering from a variational viewpoint. Density-dependence in the effective $N$-$N$ interaction leads to density rearrangement terms, in addition to the conventional folding term.…

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Large-angle elastic scattering of alpha-particle and strongly-bound light nuclei at a few tens MeV/nucleon has shown the pattern of rainbow scattering. This interesting process was shown to involve a significant overlap of the two colliding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dao T. Khoa , W. von Oertzen , H. G. Bohlen , H. S. Than

Elastic scattering of antiprotons off $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{16,18}$O is described for the first time with a totally microscopic approach based on the calculation of an optical potential (OP) describing the antiproton-target interaction.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

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 propose a practical folding model to describe $^{3}$He elastic scattering. In the model, $^{3}$He optical potentials are constructed by making the folding procedure twice. First the nucleon-target potential is evaluated by folding the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-08 Masakazu Toyokawa , Takuma Matsumoto , Kosho Minomo , Masanobu Yahiro

Employing a recently-developed dispersive optical model (DOM) which allows a complete description of experimental data both above (up to 200 MeV) and below the Fermi energy in $^{40}$Ca, we demonstrate that elastic nucleon-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-20 H. Dussan , M. H. Mahzoon , R. J. Charity , W. H. Dickhoff , A. Polls