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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

We study recently proposed ultraviolet and infrared momentum regulators of the model spaces formed by construction of a variational trial wavefunction which uses a complete set of many-body basis states based upon three-dimensional harmonic…

Separable nucleon-nucleon potentials are calculated using inverse scattering techniques as presented in previously published work. The dependence of the potentials on the momentum cut-off of the scattering phase-shifts is studied. Some…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Kohler

Background: Separable interactions have a long history in nuclear physics. In the last few years, separable expansions have been used to represent the optical potential between a nucleon (proton or neutron) and a target. Purpose: We explore…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 Michael Quinonez , Linda Hlophe , Filomena Nunes

Background: Calculating microscopic effective interactions (optical potentials) for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering has already in the past led to a large body of work. For first-order calculations a nucleon-nucleon (\textit{NN})…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 M. Burrows , R. B. Baker , Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner , K. D. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

The relativistic optical model potential (OMP) for nucleon-nucleus scattering is investigated in the framework of Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach using the Bonn-B One-Boson- Exchange potential for the bare nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Ruirui Xu , Zhongyu Ma , E. N. E. van Dalen , H. Muther

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

We present the first results of a comprehensive microscopic approach to describe nucleus-nucleus elastic collisions by means of an optical potential derived at first order in multiple-scattering theory and computed by folding the projectile…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

Optical-model potentials (OMPs) are critical ingredients for basic and applied nuclear physics. Present-day computational capabilities allow us to generate data-driven nucleon-nucleus OMPs that are non-local and exactly dispersive (as…

Based on the spectator expansion of the multiple scattering series we employ a nonlocal translationally invariant nuclear density derived from a chiral next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and the very same interaction for consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Ch. Elster , M. Burrows , S. P. Weppner , K. Launey , P. Maris , G. Popa

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

Present applications of the dispersive-optical-model analysis are restricted by the use of a local but energy-dependent version of the generalized Hartree-Fock potential. This restriction is lifted by the introduction of a corresponding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-02 W. H. Dickhoff , D. Van Neck , S. J. Waldecker , R. J. Charity , L. G. Sobotka

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 carry out a systematic analysis of angular distribution measurements for selected ground-state to ground-state (d,p) and (p,d) neutron transfer reactions, including the calcium isotopes. We propose a consistent three-body model reaction…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Jenny Lee , J. A. Tostevin , B. A. Brown , F. Delaunay , W. G. Lynch , M. J. Saelim , M. B. Tsang

A low momentum nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential $V_{low-k}$ is derived from meson exhange potentials by integrating out the model dependent high momentum modes of $V_{NN}$. The smooth and approximately unique $V_{low-k}$ is used as input for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott Bogner , T. T. S. Kuo , L. Corragio , A. Covello , N. Itaco

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

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

We take the first step towards incorporating compound nuclear observables at astrophysically relevant energies into the experimental evidence used to constrain optical models, by propagating the uncertainty in two global optical potentials,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Kyle A. Beyer , Amy E. Lovell , Cole D. Pruitt , Nathan P. Giha , Brian C. Kiedrowski

We present the first systematic nonlocal dispersive optical model analysis using both bound-state and scattering data of $^{16,18}$O, $^{40,48}$Ca, $^{58,64}$Ni, $^{112,124}$Sn, and $^{208}$Pb. In all systems, roughly half the total nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 C. D. Pruitt , R. J. Charity , L. G. Sobotka , M. C. Atkinson , W. H. Dickhoff

We construct a microscopic optical potential including breakup effects for elastic scattering of weakly-binding projectiles within the Glauber model, in which a nucleon-nucleus potential is derived by the $g$-matrix folding model. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-23 Shoya Ogawa , Ryo Horinouchi , Masakazu Toyokawa , Takuma Matsumoto