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We show the first results for the elastic scattering of neutrons off oxygen and calcium isotopes obtained from ab initio optical potentials. The potential is derived using self consistent Green's function theory (SCGF) with the saturating…
We present the first calculations of ab initio nonlocal optical potentials for $^{24,26,28}$Mg and $^{32}$Mg isotopes using the leading-order term of the spectator expansion of multiple-scattering theory. We use the structure input from the…
The $\alpha$-optical potential is one of the key input parameters used to measure the reaction rate of the ($\gamma,\alpha$)-process using the Hauser-Feshbach(HF) statistical model and the principle of detailed balance. $\alpha$-elastic…
$(\alpha,\gamma)$ and $(\alpha$,n) reaction cross sections recently measured close to the reaction thresholds are rather well described by a previously developed regional optical potential. Thus, particular features of the $\alpha$-particle…
A review of the recent applications of the dispersive optical model (DOM) is presented. Emphasis is on the nonlocal implementation of the DOM that is capable of describing ground-state properties accurately when data like the nuclear charge…
Microscopic descriptions of exotic nuclei are the subject of much experimental and theoretical effort. Not only are such important in their own right but are also necessary for applications in nuclear astrophysics. Evaluations of model wave…
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…
We combine the \textit{ab initio} symmetry-adapted no-core shell model (SA-NCSM) with the single-particle Green's function approach to construct optical potentials rooted in first principles. Specifically, we show that total cross sections…
Various model applications in nuclear structure and reactions have been formulated starting with the Feshbach projection formalism. In recent studies a truncated excluded space has been enumerated to facilitate calculation and identify a…
An important ingredient for applications of nuclear physics to e.g. astrophysics or nuclear energy are the cross sections for reactions of neutrons with rare isotopes. Since direct measurements are often not possible, indirect methods like…
Understanding the short-range nucleon-nucleon interaction is essential for the interpretation of correlation femtoscopy measurements in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions. We present an analytical treatment of the strong…
Astrophysical models studying the origin of the p-nuclei require knowledge of the reaction rates of photodisintegrations and capture reactions. Since experimental data at astrophysically relevant energies are limited, reaction rate…
Mesoscopic molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine the large scale structure of several binary polymer mixtures of various chemical architecture, concentration, and thermodynamic conditions. By implementing an analytical…
Measurable spectra are theoretically very often derived from complicated many-body Green's functions. In this way, one calculates much more information than actually needed. Here we present an in principle exact approach to construct…
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 reliability of a previous $\alpha$-particle optical-model potential (OMP) on nuclei with mass number 45$\leq$$A$$\leq$209 was proved for emitted $\alpha$ particles as well, for proton--induced reactions on Zn isotopes [Phys. Rev. C {\bf…
Knockout nuclear reactions, in which a nucleon is removed from a nucleus as a result of the collision with another nucleus, have been widely used as an experimental tool, both to populate isotopes further removed from stability, and to…
A relativistic microscopic optical model potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering is developed based on the \emph{ab initio} relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) theory with the improved local density approximation, which is…
The Feshbach theory of the optical potential naturally leads to a microscopic description of scattering in terms of the many-body self-energy. We consider a recent calculation of this quantity for 16O and study the possibility of applying…
Optical-model potentials (OMPs) continue to play a key role in nuclear reaction calculations. However, the uncertainty of phenomenological OMPs in widespread use -- inherent to any parametric model trained on data -- has not been fully…