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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…

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The ability of the Gogny forces of the D1 family to describe the nucleon-nucleus scattering is studied. To this end, we use an optical model potential built up using a semi-microscopic nuclear matter approach. The real and imaginary parts…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-15 Juan Lopez-Moraña , Xavier Viñas

We investigate the nonlocal structure of optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering based on microscopic approaches. To this purpose, \emph{in-medium} folding optical potentials are calculated in momentum space and their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 H. F. Arellano , G. Blanchon

The sensitivity of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering to the off-shell behavior of realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions is investigated when on-shell equivalent nucleon-nucleon potentials are used. The study is based on applications of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. F. Arellano , F. A. Brieva , M. Sander , H. V. von Geramb

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…

Recently developed chiral effective field theory models provide excellent descriptions of the bulk characteristics of finite nuclei, but have not been tested with other observables. In this work, densities from both relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 B. C. Clark , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Kurth Kerr , John Rusnak , S. Hama

In the density distribution of a deformed target-nucleus, the spherical $\lambda = 0$ and the deformed $\lambda = 2$ parts were considered. On this basis, the corresponding potential parts $U_0$ and $U^{(2)}_{int}$ of a double -folding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-06-06 K. V. Lukyanov , E. V. Zemlyanaya , I. N. Kuchtina , V. K. Lukyanov , Z. Metawei , K. M. Hanna

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

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

Elastic scattering observables (differential cross section and analyzing power) are calculated for the reaction $^6$He(p,p)$^6$He at projectile energies starting at 71 MeV/nucleon. The optical potential needed to describe the reaction is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-02 A. Orazbayev , Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner

The differential cross section and the analyzing power are calculated for elastic scattering of $^6$He from a proton target using a microscopic folding optical potential, in which the $^6$He nucleus is described in terms of a $^4$He-core…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Ch. Elster , A. Orazbayev , S. P. Weppner

We employ the chiral nucleon-nucleon potential derived in ref.[1] to study bound and scattering states in the two-nucleon system. At next-to-leading order, this potential is the sum of renormalized one-pion and two-pion exchange and contact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 E. Epelbaum , W. Glöckle , Ulf-G. Meißner

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

We have constructed the leading order hyperon-nucleon potential in a chiral Effective Field Theory approach. The chiral potential consists of one-pseudoscalar-meson exchanges and non-derivative four-baryon contact terms. The hyperon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Polinder

Results of an exploratory study of the antinucleon-nucleon interaction within chiral effective field theory are reported. The antinucleon-nucleon potential is derived up to next-to-next-to-leading order, based on a modified Weinberg power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Xian-Wei Kang , Johann Haidenbauer , Ulf-G. Meißner

Differential cross sections of ($p,n$) and ($^3$He,$t$) charge-exchange reactions leading to the excitation of the isobaric analog state (IAS) of the target nucleus are calculated with the distorted wave Born approximation. The $G$-matrix…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Phan Nhut Huan , Nguyen Le Anh , Bui Minh Loc , Isaac Vidana

Background: Effective interactions for nucleon-nucleus ($NA$) elastic scattering from first principles require the use of the same nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction in the structure and reaction calculations, and a consistent treatment of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 R. B. Baker , B. McClung , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , S. P. Weppner , M. Burrows , G. Popa

A nuclear-elastic $^9$Be+$^4$He reaction is investigated. A tangential literature overview of the proximity potential is presented, necessitated by an approximate method for calculating $l\text{-values}$. The model is surveyed intensively,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-16 Austin A. Morris

We investigate theoretical approaches to pion--nucleus elastic scattering at high energies (300 $\le T_\pi \le$ 1 GeV). A ``model--exact'' calculation of the lowest--order microscopic optical model, carried out in momentum space and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 C. M. Chen , D. J. Ernst , M. B. Johnson

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