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We derive ab initio optical potentials from self-consistent Green's function (SCGF) theory and compute the elastic scattering of neutrons off oxygen and calcium isotopes. The comparison with scattering data is satisfactory at low scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Idini , C. Barbieri , P. Navrátil

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

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Bing Wang , Dong Bai , Yi Xu

Elastic scattering of antiprotons off $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{16,18}$O is described for the first time with a totally microscopic approach based on the calculation of an optical potential (OP) describing the antiproton-target interaction.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

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

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-17 J. Rotureau , P. Danielewicz , G. Hagen , F. Nunes , T. Papenbrock

Elastic scattering is a very important process to understand nuclear interactions in finite nuclei. Despite decades of efforts, the goal of reaching a coherent description of this physical process in terms of microscopic forces is still far…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Matteo Vorabbi , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti

We present a determination of optical potentials using the double-folding method based on chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with dispersion relations to constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Victoria Durant , Pierre Capel , Achim Schwenk

Microscopic optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus (NA) scattering obtained from the full folding of the effective g matrices, solutions of the Bruckner-Bethe-Goldstone equation, with the densities of the target, are applied to the case of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Karataglidis , M. B. Chadwick

We present a determination of optical potentials for $^{10}$Be-nucleus collisions using the double-folding method to compute the real part and Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations to derive the imaginary part. As microscopic inputs we use…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-29 V. Durant , P. Capel

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

In this work we use microscopic Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Potentials (OP) to analyze elastic scattering data for the differential cross section of the $^{78}$Kr (p,p) $^{78}$Kr reaction, with the goal of extracting the matter radius and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-27 Matteo Vorabbi , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti

The ability of the Gogny forces of the D1 family to describe the nucleon-nucleus scattering is studied. To this end, we use an optical model potential built up using a semi-microscopic nuclear matter approach. The real and imaginary parts…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-15 Juan Lopez-Moraña , Xavier Viñas

The optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering at $65$~MeV are calculated for $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O, $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{56}$Fe, $^{90}$Zr and $^{208}$Pb in first order multiple scattering theory, following the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 C. R. Chinn , Ch. Elster , R. M. Thaler , S. P. Weppner

Based on the Watson expansion of the multiple scattering series, we employ a nonlocal translationally invariant nuclear density derived within the symmetry-adapted no-core shell model (SA-NCSM) framework from a chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 R. B. Baker , Ch. Elster , T. Dytrych , K. D. Launey

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

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

We construct nucleonic microscopic optical potentials by combining the Green's function approach with the coupled-cluster method for $\rm{^{40}Ca}$ and $\rm{^{48}Ca}$. For the computation of the ground-state of $\rm{^{40}Ca}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-30 J. Rotureau , P. Danielewicz , G. Hagen , G. R. Jansen , F. M. Nunes

We investigate the nonlocal structure of optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering based on microscopic approaches. To this purpose, \emph{in-medium} folding optical potentials are calculated in momentum space and their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 H. F. Arellano , G. Blanchon

The Pauli rearrangement potential given by the second-order diagram is evaluated for a nucleon optical model potential (OMP) with $G$ matrices of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in chiral effective field theory. The results obtained in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Kohno