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A new nonlocal dispersive-optical-model analysis has been carried out for neutrons and protons in $^{48}$Ca that reproduces the weak-form-factor measurement of CREX. In addition to elastic-scattering angular distributions, total and…

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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

Event-by-event fluctuations of the baryon number, which is mostly carried by protons and neutrons, in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a sensitive probe for locating the conjectured critical point in the quantum chromodynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Yi-Heng Feng , Che Ming Ko , Xiaofeng Luo , Yu-Gang Ma , Kai-Jia Sun , Song Zhang

At energies of a few GeV per nucleon, nuclear collisions exhibit phenomena more complex than the individualistic nucleon interactions observed at much higher energies. From recent results on proton number fluctuations in Au + Au collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Ali Bazgir , Maciej Rybczynski , Uzair A. Shah , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

We explore the consequences of gluonic hot spots inside the proton for the initial eccentricities in a proton-nucleus collision, and the constraints on the parameters describing these hot spots from coherent and incoherent exclusive vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-25 S. Demirci , T. Lappi , S. Schlichting

We show that the data on $\gamma p$ and $\gamma\gamma$ interactions can be derived from the $pp$ and $\bar p p$ forward scattering amplitudes using vector meson dominance and the additive quark model. The nucleon-nucleon data are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. M. Block , E. M. Gregores , F. Halzen , G. Pancheri

Neutrino scattering on electrons is considered as a tool for laboratory searches of the neutrino magnetic moment. We study inelastic $\bar\nu_ee^-$-scattering on electrons bound in the germanium (Z=32) and iodine (Z=53) atoms for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Fayans , L. A. Mikaelyan , V. V. Sinev

Neutrinos in core collapse supernovae are likely trapped by neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we calculate neutrino mean free paths and ion-ion correlation functions for heterogeneous plasmas. Mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. L Caballero , C. J. Horowitz , D. K. Berry

We present theoretical predictions for electron scattering on oxygen and calcium isotopic chains. The calculations are done within the framework of the distorted-wave Born approximation and the proton and neutron density distributions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-16 Andrea Meucci , Matteo Vorabbi , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Franco Davide Pacati

Using the leading twist approach (LTA) to nuclear shadowing, we calculate the ratios of diffractive and usual parton distributions for a heavy nucleus (Pb) and the proton, $R_{A/p}=(f_{i/A}^{D(3)}/f_{i/A})/(f_{i/p}^{D(3)}/f_{i/p})$, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 V. Guzey , M. Strikman

We study electromagnetic form factors of protons in proton-nucleus scattering via analysing of experimental cross-sections of accompanying bremsstrahlung photons. A new bremsstrahlung model for proton-nucleus scattering is developed, where…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Li-Ping Zou , Peng-Ming Zhang

We use the wounded nucleon model to study the forward-backward multiplicity fluctuations measured by the PHOBOS Collaboration in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. The enhancement of forward-backward fluctuations in Au+Au collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Adam Bzdak , Krzysztof Wozniak

We review the state-of-the-art of Glauber-inspired models for estimating the distribution of the number of participating nucleons in pA and AA collisions. We argue that there is room for improvement in these models when it comes to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Christian Bierlich , Gösta Gustafson , Leif Lönnblad

In this paper we propose the analysis of the heavy quark photoproduction associated with a leading neutron in hadronic collisions at the LHC as an alternative to probe the pion gluon distribution in a kinematical range not covered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Victor P. Goncalves , Juciene T. de Souza , Diego Spiering

We derive forward inclusive dijet production in the scattering of a dilute hadron off an arbitrary dense target, whose partons with small fraction of momentum x are described by a Color Glass Condensate. Both multiple scattering and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cyrille Marquet

Possibilities of discriminating neutrons and gamma rays in the AGATA gamma-ray tracking spectrometer have been investigated with the aim of reducing the background due to inelastic scattering of neutrons in the high-purity germanium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-09 A. Ataç , A. Kaşkaş , S. Akkoyun , M. Şenyiğit , T. Hüyük , S. O. Kara , J. Nyberg

We study coherent and incoherent diffractive hadron production in high energy quarkonium--heavy nucleus collisions as a probe of the gluon saturation regime of QCD. Taking this process as a model for pA collisions, we argue that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 Kirill Tuchin

Deep-inelastic positron-proton scattering events at low photon virtuality Q^2 with a forward jet, produced at small angles with respect to the proton beam, are measured with the H1 detector at HERA. A subsample of events with an additional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 H1 Collaboration

A coordinate space description of shadowing in deep-inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering is presented. The picture in the laboratory frame is that of quark-gluon fluctuations of the high-energy virtual photon, propagating coherently over…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Piller , M. Vänttinen , L. Mankiewicz , W. Weise

A collision between a proton and a heavy nucleus at ultrarelativistic energy creates particles whose rapidity distribution is asymmetric, with more particles emitted in the direction of the nucleus than in the direction of the proton. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault