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We study exclusive vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of a wide range of nuclei, and assess the potential of measurements to constrain the small-$x$ structure of oxygen and neon nuclei. We employ an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Heikki Mäntysaari , Hendrik Roch , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

The neutron capture cross sections have been studied near the $Z=50$ closed shell for a number of nuclei those take part in heavy element nucleosynthesis, the slow and the rapid neutron capture processes and the proton capture process. An…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-11 Saumi Dutta , G. Gangoapdhyay , Abhijit Bhattacharyya

Motivated by recent findings on the separability of optical potentials that are derived from folding off-shell densities with off-shell nucleon-nucleon amplitudes, we study the off-shell character of one-body density matrices created within…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 J. Foy , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , S. P. Weppner , S. K. Bogner

The dispersive optical model (DOM) as presently implemented can investigate the isospin (nucleon asymmetry) dependence of the Hartree-Fock-like potential relevant for nucleons near the Fermi energy. Data constraints indicate that a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 R. J. Charity , W. H. Dickhoff , L. G. Sobotka , S. J. Waldecker

We calculate nucleon-nucleon scattering at low energies and large impact parameter in the Skyrme model within the framework for soliton scattering proposed by Manton. This corresponds to a truncation of the degrees of freedom to the twelve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 T. Gisiger , M. B. Paranjape

Background: For its simplicity, the eikonal method is the tool of choice to analyze nuclear reactions at high energies ($E>100$ MeV/nucleon), including knockout reactions. However, so far, the effective interactions used in this method are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 Chloë Hebborn , Filomena M. Nunes

A phase-space excluded-volume approach is developed to investigate the in-medium properties of light clusters in nuclear matter. In this approach, light clusters can exist only if the total nucleon phase-space occupation of the surrounding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Rui Wang , Zhen Zhang , Stefano Burrello , Maria Colonna , Edoardo G. Lanza

A successful unified description of $\bar p$ nuclear interactions near E=0 is achieved using a $\bar p$ optical potential within a folding model, $V_{{\rm opt}} \sim \bar v * {\rho}$, where a $\bar p p$ potential $\bar v$ is folded with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 C. J. Batty , E. Friedman , A. Gal

We review recent progress and motivate the need for further developments in nuclear optical potentials that are widely used in the theoretical analysis of nucleon elastic scattering and reaction cross sections. In regions of the nuclear…

The optical potential for the $\eta$-meson is calculated. This is based on a new determination of a large $\eta$-N scattering length and recent experiments of $\eta$ production in two nucleon collisions. These determine the $\eta$ - nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Kulpa , S. Wycech , A. M. Green

An effective nucleon-nucleon interaction calculated in nuclear matter from the Bonn potential has been parametrized in terms of a local density- and energy-dependent two-body interaction. This allows to calculate the real part of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Bartnitzky , H. Clement , P. Czerski , H. Müther , F. Nuoffer , J. Siegler

We propose two generalizations of the dark photon model which predict the suppressed elastic dark matter nuclei cross section in comparison with the corresponding prediction of the dark photon model. In the first model the main difference…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 N. V. Krasnikov

Inclusive electron scattering from nuclei at low momentum transfer (corresponding to x>1) and moderate Q^2 is dominated by quasifree scattering from nucleons. In the impulse approximation, the cross section can be directly connected to the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Arrington

The elastic and inelastic proton scattering on $^{18,20,22}$O nuclei are studied in a folding model formalism of nucleon-nucleus optical potential and inelastic form factor. The DDM3Y effective interaction is used and the ground state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Gupta , E. Khan , Y. Blumenfeld

The recent and older level shifts and widths in pbar atoms are analyzed. The results are fitted by an antiproton-nucleus optical potential with two basic complex strength parameters. These parameters are related to average S and P wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Wycech , F. J. Hartmann , J. Jastrzebski , B. Klos , A. Trzcinska , T. von Egidy

Nonuniform neutron-rich matter present in both core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star crusts is described in terms of a semiclassical model that reproduces nuclear-matter properties and includes long-range Coulomb interactions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Perez-Garcia , J. Carriere , D. K. Berry , J. Piekarewicz

In this work, we develop an updated model for pion-nucleus scattering in the framework of the distorted wave impulse approximation in momentum space. We construct the second-order pion-nucleus potential, which involves analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-27 Viacheslav Tsaran , Marc Vanderhaeghen

According to the Hugenholtz-Van Hove theorem, the symmetry energy and its density slope can be decomposed uniquely in terms of the single-nucleon potential in asymmetric nuclear matter which, at normal density, can be constrained by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Xiao-Hua Li , Bao-Jun Cai , Lie-Wen Chen , Rong Chen , Bao-An Li , Chang Xu

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

This work is part of an ongoing effort to build microscopically-driven nonlocal optical potentials easily tracktable in scattering codes. Based on the separable `$JvH$' structure proposed recently \cite{arellano_22}, where the potential can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-26 G. Blanchon , H. F. Arellano