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The charge-exchange (3He,t) scattering to the isobaric analog state (IAS) of the target can be considered as "elastic" scattering of 3He by the isovector term of the optical potential (OP) that flips the projectile isospin. Therefore, the…

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Double folding potential is constructed using the M3Y interaction and the matter densities of the projectile and target nuclei obtained from four microscopic energy density functional (EDF) models. The elastic scattering cross sections for…

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We performed a least-square fit analysis to reproduce the elastic angular distributions for $\alpha$ scattering on various nuclei form $^{12}$C to $^{208}$Pb for incident energies in the range 18 - 70 MeV using a velocity-dependent optical…

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The nucleon-nucleon interaction is constructed by means of the $J$-matrix version of inverse scattering theory. Ambiguities of the interaction are eliminated by postulating tridiagonal and quasi-tridiagonal forms of the potential matrix in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Shirokov , A. I. Mazur , S. A. Zaytsev , J. P. Vary , T. A. Weber

For 52 target nuclei with deuteron as projectile, we calculate the reaction cross sections and elastic scattering angular distributions, as well as the $\chi^2$ values for 11 kinds of deuteron optical model potentials: our global deuteron…

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The in-medium properties of a hyperon-nucleon potential, derived within chiral effective field theory and fitted to Lambda-N and Sigma-N scattering data, are investigated. Results for the single-particle potentials of the Lambda and Sigma…

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We investigate the dependence of polarisation observables in elastic deuteron Compton scattering below the pion production threshold on the spin-independent and spin-dependent iso-scalar dipole polarisabilities of the nucleon. The…

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Recently developed chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) forces at next-to-leading order (NLO) that describe NN phase shifts up to about 100 MeV fairly well have been applied to 3N and 4N systems. Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations have been solved…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Epelbaum , H. Kamada , A. Nogga , H. Witala , W. Glöckle , Ulf-G. Meißner

We extend the pion-nucleus multiple-scattering framework to include detailed second-order rescattering dynamics for nuclei with non-zero isospin. To account for intermediate charge-exchange and nucleon spin-flip effects, we develop a…

We employ two models of the nucleon-nucleon force: the OPE-Gaussian as well as the chiral N4LO and N4LO+ interactions with semilocal regularization in momentum space to study correlations among two-nucleon and three-nucleon elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Yu. Volkotrub , R. Skibiński , J. Golak , H. Witała

The discrete energy-eigenvalues of two nucleons interacting with a finite-range nuclear force and confined to a harmonic potential are used to numerically reconstruct the free-space scattering phase shifts. The extracted phase shifts are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Thomas Luu , Martin Savage , Achim Schwenk , James P. Vary

Chiral EFT yields singular potentials that require regularization and renormalization when implemented in a dynamical equation such as the Lippmann--Schwinger equation. We employ two different approaches, renormalization with contact terms…

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The $\Lambda N$ and $\Sigma N$ interactions are considered at next-to-leading order in SU(3) chiral effective field theory. Different options for the low-energy constants that determine the strength of the contact interactions are explored.…

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Starting from a complete set of relativistic nucleon-nucleon contact operators up to order $O(p^4)$ of the expansion in the soft (relative or nucleon) momentum $p$, we show that non-relativistic expansions of relativistic operators involve…

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Effective field theory techniques are used to describe the interaction of heavy hadrons in a model independent way. Predictability is obtained by exploiting the symmetries of QCD. Heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory is reviewed and used…

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The vector analyzing power has been measured for the elastic scattering of neutron-rich 6He from polarized protons at 71 MeV/nucleon making use of a newly constructed solid polarized proton target operated in a low magnetic field and at…

A microscopic calculation of reaction cross sections for nucleon-nucleus scattering has been performed by explicitly coupling the elastic channel to all particle-hole excitations in the target and one-nucleon pickup channels. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-26 G. P. A. Nobre , F. S. Dietrich , J. E. Escher , I. J. Thompson , M. Dupuis , J. Terasaki , J. Engel

Theoretical study of systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are of practical importance. In this paper, we analysed various cross sections of neutron-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Surya Narayan , Rajesh S. Gowda , S. Ganesan

We use a phenomenological nucleus-nucleus optical potential constructed in the light of a potential developed by Ginocchio to study the elastic angular distributions of different nuclear systems near Coulomb barrier. The differential cross…

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