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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

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

Microscopic optical model potential results for reaction cross sections of proton elastic scattering are presented. The applications cover the 10-1000 MeV energy range and consider both stable and unstable nuclei. The study is based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. F. Arellano , M. Girod

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…

We propose a new nonlocal form of the nucleon-nucleus optical potential and demonstrate its reliability. We extend the nonlocal potential to include the excitation of the nuclear core and develop energy-independent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 A. Deltuva , D. Jurčiukonis

Several nucleon-nucleon potentials, Paris, Nijmegen, Argonne, and those derived by quantum inversion, which describe the NN interaction for T-lab below 300$ MeV are extended in their range of application as NN optical models. Extensions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Funk , H. V. von Geramb , K. A. Amos

Nucleon self-energies and interaction potentials in supernova (SN) matter, which are known to have an important effect on nucleosynthesis conditions in SN ejecta are investigated. Corresponding weak charged-current interaction rates with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-22 Matthias Hempel

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

In this work we fit $neutron$ - $^{12}C$ elastic scattering angular distributions in the energy range 12 to 20 MeV, by adding a velocity dependent term to the optical potential. This term introduces a wave function gradient, whose…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-17 M. I. Jaghoub , M. F. Hassan , G. H. Rawitscher

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

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 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 nucleon differential elastic scattering cross sections, the total proton reaction cross sections, and the single-particle energies of nucleon bound states for 40Ca, 90Zr and 208Pb are reanalyzed in terms of the dispersive optical model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. V. Bespalova , E. A. Romanovsky , T. I. Spasskaya

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 investigate the non-locality parameters $ \beta $ in nucleon-nucleus interactions for $ ^{16}\mathrm{O} $, $ ^{40}\mathrm{Ca} $, $ ^{48}\mathrm{Ca} $, and $ ^{208}\mathrm{Pb} $ using a microscopic optical potential (MOP) derived from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Do Quang Tam , N. Hoang Tung , N. Hoang Phuc , T. V. Nhan Hao

A study of the nucleon mean-field potential in nuclear matter (NM) is done within an extended Hartree-Fock (HF) formalism, using the CDM3Y6 density dependent version of the M3Y interaction which is associated with the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Dao T. Khoa , Doan Thi Loan , Nguyen Hoang Phuc

We investigate the role of high momentum components of optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering and its incidence on their nonlocal structure in coordinate space. The study covers closed-shell nuclei with mass number in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 H. F. Arellano , G. Blanchon

We call "projectile fragmentation" of neutron halo nuclei the elastic breakup (diffraction) reaction, when the observable studied is the neutron-core relative energy spectrum. This observable has been measured in relation to the Coulomb…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Guillaume Blanchon , A. Bonaccorso , D. M. Brink , A. García-Camacho , N. Vinh Mau

Nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions based on chiral effective theories are commonly used in ab initio calculations of light nuclei. Here we present a study based on three different NN interactions (up to next-to-next-to-leading order) for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-23 R. B. Baker , M. Burrows , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , G. Popa , S. P. Weppner

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