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We develop a method to construct a microscopic optical potential from chiral interactions for nucleon-nucleus scattering. The optical potential is constructed by combining the Green's function approach with the coupled-cluster method. To…

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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 structure of the exotic $^{8}$B nucleus is studied by means of elastic scattering, as well as its breakup on nuclear targets. We present microscopic calculations of the optical potentials (OPs) and cross sections of elastic scattering…

This chapter presents an overview of the optical model description of nucleon-nucleus scattering and reactions based on fundamental nuclear two-body and many-body forces. The chapter begins with a historical review followed by a discussion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-09 J. W. Holt , T. R. Whitehead

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

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

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

We perform a first-principle calculation of optical potentials for nucleon elastic scattering off medium-mass isotopes. Fully based on a saturating chiral Hamiltonian, the optical potentials are derived by folding nuclear density…

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We study the scattering of Dark Matter particles off various light nuclei within the framework of chiral effective field theory. We focus on scalar interactions and include one- and two-nucleon scattering processes whose form and strength…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-04 C. Körber , A. Nogga , J. de Vries

The differential elastic cross sections of $^{12}$C - $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O - $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne - $^{20}$Ne nuclei scattering are calculated in the complete Glauber theory with the account of the modification due to Coulomb interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Yu. M. Shabelski , A. G. Shuvaev

The optical potential is a powerful instrument for calculations on a wide variety of nuclear reactions, in particular, for quasi-elastic lepton-nucleus scattering. Phenomenological optical potentials are successful in the description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-13 Carlotta Giusti

The energy- and density-dependent single-particle potential for nucleons is constructed in a medium of infinite isospin-symmetric nuclear matter starting from realistic nuclear interactions derived within the framework of chiral effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-24 J. W. Holt , N. Kaiser , G. A. Miller , W. Weise

Shell model wave functions have been used to form microscopic g-folding optical potentials with which elastic scattering data from 8He, 10,11C, and 18,20,22O scattering on hydrogen has been analyzed. Those potentials, the effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Karataglidis , Y. J. Kim , K. Amos

We derive a microscopic optical potential for intermediate energies using ab initio translationally invariant nonlocal one-body nuclear densities computed within the no-core shell model (NCSM) approach utilizing two- and three-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Michael Gennari , Matteo Vorabbi , Angelo Calci , Petr Navratil

Extensive systematization of theoretical and experimental nuclear densities and of optical potential strengths exctracted from heavy-ion elastic scattering data analyses at low and intermediate energies are presented.The energy-dependence…

The density distributions of $^{10}$Be and $^{11}$Be nuclei obtained within the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) model and the generator coordinate method (GCM) are used to calculate the microscopic optical potentials (OPs) and cross sections of…

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

Modern Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) calculations are very successful in describing various properties of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter. Within BHF theory a microscopic optical potential (MOP) for nucleon-nucleus scattering is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Miao Qi , Li-Li Chen , Li-Gang Cao , Feng-Shou Zhang , Xin-Le Shang , Wei Zuo , U. Lombardo

The effective interaction between a nucleon and a nucleus is one of the most important ingredients for reaction theories. Theoretical formulations were introduced early by Feshbach and Watson, and efforts of deriving and computing those…

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

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