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Background: Recent high-precision measurements of alpha-induced reaction data below the Coulomb barrier have pointed out questions of the alpha-particle optical-model potential (OMP) which are yet open within various mass ranges. Purpose:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-07 V. Avrigeanu , M. Avrigeanu

An approach to calculate microscopic optical potential (OP) with the real part obtained by a folding procedure and with the imaginary part inherent in the high-energy approximation (HEA) is applied to study the $^8$He+p elastic scattering…

Background: The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy is crucial in determining several properties of finite nuclei to the neutron stars with mass $\sim$ 1.4 $M_\odot$. The values of neutron skin thickness, isovector giant dipole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-23 T. Ghosh , Sangeeta , G. Saxena , B. K. Agrawal , Ushasi Datta

Elastic cross sections are calculated and compared with the data on $\pi^{\pm}$ scattering on $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{58}$Ni, $^{208}$Pb nuclei in the energy range from 130 to 290 MeV. To this end, both the folding optical potential (OP)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-02 V. K. Lukyanov , E. V. Zemlyanaya , K. V. Lukyanov , I. Abdul-Magead

We investigate parity-violating observables in the np system, including the longitudinal asymmetry and neutron-spin rotation in np elastic scattering, the photon asymmetry in np radiative capture, and the asymmetries in deuteron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 R. Schiavilla , J. Carlson , M. Paris

In several processes of stellar nucleosynthesis, like the astrophysical gamma-process, nuclear reactions involving alpha particles play an important role. The description of these reactions necessitates the knowledge of the alpha-nucleus…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-06-04 Zs. Mátyus , Gy. Gyürky , P. Mohr , A. Angyal , Z. Halász , G. G. Kiss , Á Tóth , T. Szücs , Zs. Fülöp

We examine the $\Lambda$-${}^4\mathrm{He}$ ($\alpha$) momentum correlation in high-energy collisions to elucidate the interaction between Lambdas ($\Lambda$) and nucleons ($N$). We compare phenomenological $\Lambda\alpha$ potentials with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-08 Asanosuke Jinno , Yuki Kamiya , Tetsuo Hyodo , Akira Ohnishi

Elastic scattering of pions from finite nuclei is investigated utilizing a contemporary, momentum--space first--order optical potential combined with microscopic estimates of second--order corrections. The calculation of the first--order…

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

We review the experimental knowledge on the dipole polarizability (DP) of nuclei and its relation to the neutron skin thickness and properties of the neutron-rich matter equation of state (EOS). The discussion focuses on recent experiments…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-08 P. von Neumann-Cosel , A. Tamii

The isospin-dependent component of the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction that causes the $\Delta T=1$ (p, p') and (p, n) reactions off nuclei is studied. It is shown that the corrections to the impulse approximation comes from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Taksu Cheon , Kazuo Takayanagi

Analysis of data involving nuclei far from stability often requires optical potential (OP) for neutron scattering. Since neutron data is seldom available, while proton scattering data is more abundant, it is useful to have estimates of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-04 R. P. DeVito , Dao T. Khoa , Sam M. Austin , U. E. P. Berg , Bui Minh Loc

The decay of $\alpha$ particle from a nucleus is viewed as a quantum resonance state of a two-body scattering process of the $\alpha$+daughter nucleus pair governed by a novel nucleus-nucleus potential in squared Woods-Saxon form. By the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Basudeb Sahu , Swagatika Bhoi

We introduce the transition-density formalism, an efficient and general method for calculating the interaction of external probes with light nuclei. One- and two-body transition densities that encode the nuclear structure of the target are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Harald W. Griesshammer , Judith A. McGovern , Andreas Nogga , Daniel R. Phillips

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

The relation between nuclear saturation and NN-correlations is examined. Nucleons bound in a nucleus have a reduced effective mass due to the mean field. This results in off-energy-shell scatterings modifying the free-space NN-interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Köhler , S. A. Moszkowski

Based on systematic analyses of several popular non-relativistic energy density functionals with mean-field approximation, we estimate the value of the fourth-order symmetry energy $E_{\text{sym,4}}(\rho)$ at nuclear normal density $\rho_0$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Jie Pu , Zhen Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen

We develop a reaction model for $\eta$ photoproduction off the deuteron ($\gamma d\to\eta pn$), and study the reaction at a special kinematics, where the photon beam energy is $\sim 0.94$ GeV and the scattered proton is detected at $\sim…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 S. X. Nakamura , H. Kamano , T. Ishikawa

We calculate differential cross sections for proton-nucleus elastic scattering by using a Glauber theory in the optical limit approximation and nucleon distributions that can be obtained in the framework of macroscopic nuclear models in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu , Badawy Abu-Ibrahim

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Kyoungsu Heo , Hana Gil , Ki-Seok Choi , K. S. Kim , Chang Ho Hyun , W. Y. So

We construct a formula for proton-nucleus total reaction cross section as a function of the mass and neutron excess of the target nucleus and the proton incident energy. We deduce the dependence of the cross section on the mass number and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kei Iida , Akihisa Kohama , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu