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A microscopic calculation of the optical potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering has been performed by explicitly coupling the elastic channel to all the particle-hole (p-h) excitation states in the target and to all relevant pickup…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 G. P. A. Nobre , I. J. Thompson , J. E. Escher , F. S. Dietrich

We study the spin-parity distribution P(J$^{\pi}$,E) of $^{156}$Gd excited states above the neutron separation energy $S_{n}=8.536$ MeV \cite{156Gd_list_of_levels} that are expected to be populated via the 1-step neutron pickup reaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 V. G. Gueorguiev , J. E. Escher

Systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are important for ADSS applications. Ramsauer model is well known and widely applied to understand systematics of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 S. V. Suryanarayana , H. Naik , S. Ganesan , S. Kailas , R. K. Choudhury , Guinyum Kim

We demonstrate that for small values of momentum transfer, Q^2, the in-medium change of the G_E/G_M form factor ratio for a bound neutron is dominated by the change in the electric charge radius and predict in a model independent manner…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 I. C. Cloët , Gerald A. Miller , E. Piasetzky , G. Ron

The problem of estimating non-resonant astrophysical S-factors and thermonuclear reaction rates, based on measured nuclear cross sections, is of major interest for nuclear energy generation, neutrino physics, and element synthesis. Many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Christian Iliadis , Kevin Anderson , Alain Coc , Frank Timmes , Sumner Starrfield

The (d,p) neutron transfer and (d,d) elastic scattering reactions were measured in inverse kinematics using a radioactive ion beam of 132Sn at 630 MeV. The elastic scattering data were taken in a region where Rutherford scattering dominated…

The total nuclear cross-section Qtot(E) resulting from the interaction of protons with nuclei is decomposed in 3 different contributions: 1. elastic scatter at the complete nucleus, which adopts a part of the proton kinetic energy; 2.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 W. Ulmer

We consider elastic reflection and transmission of electrons by a disordered system characterized by a $2N\!\times\!2N$ scattering matrix $S$. Expressing $S$ in terms of the $N$ radial parameters and of the four $N\!\times\!N$ unitary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Jean-Louis Pichard

The straightforward calculations of the reaction and interaction cross sections of the nuclear scattering are carried out in Glauber approach using the generating function method. It allows for the resummation of all orders of Glauber…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-03 Yu. M. Shabelski , A. G. Shuvaev

The averages of ratios of characteristic polynomials det(lambda - X) of N x N random matrices X, are investigated in the large N limit for the GUE, GOE and GSE ensemble. The density of states and the two-point correlation function are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Brezin , S. Hikami

Quantum counterparts of certain simple classical systems can exhibit chaotic behaviour through the statistics of their energy levels and the irregular spectra of chaotic systems are modelled by eigenvalues of infinite random matrices. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 C. T. J. Dodson

We investigate the contributions of various reaction channels to the interaction, reaction, charge-changing and neutron-changing cross sections. The goal is to investigate the relation between microscopic interactions and the symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 E. A. Teixeira , T. Aumann , C. A. Bertulani , B. V. Carlson

The de-excitation of compound nuclei has been successfully described for several decades by means of statistical models. However, accurate predictions require some fine-tuning of the model parameters. This task can be simplified by studying…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Davide Mancusi , Robert J. Charity , Joseph Cugnon

The nucleon-nucleon short-range correlation NN-SRC is one of the key issues of nuclear physics, which typically manifest themselves in high-momentum components of the nuclear momentum distributions. In this letter, the nuclear spectral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-27 Qinglin Niu , Jian Liu , Yuanlong Guo , Chang Xu , Mengjiao Lyu , Zhongzhou Ren

Stochastic reaction networks, which are usually modeled as continuous-time Markov chains on $\mathbb Z^d_{\ge 0}$, and simulated via a version of the "Gillespie algorithm," have proven to be a useful tool for the understanding of processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 David F. Anderson , Aidan S. Howells

Parameter-dependent statistical properties of spectra of totally connected irregular quantum graphs with Neumann boundary conditions are studied. The autocorrelation functions of level velocities c(x) and c(w,x) as well as the distributions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-17 Oleh Hul , Petr Seba , Leszek Sirko

Multimessenger observations of the neutron star merger event GW170817 have re-energized the debate over the astrophysical origins of the most massive elements via the r-process nucleosynthesis. A key aspect of such studies is comparing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-06 S. Nikas , G. Perdikakis , M. Beard , R. Surman , M. R. Mumpower , P. Tsintari

Accurate modeling of the neutron star crust is essential for interpreting multimessenger observations and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EoS). However, standard phenomenological EoS models often rely on heuristic extrapolations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 S. Burrello , F. Gulminelli , M. Antonelli , M. Colonna , A. Fantina

The generalized Rosenzweig-Porter model with real (GOE) off-diagonal entries arguably constitutes the simplest random matrix ensemble displaying a phase with fractal eigenstates, which we characterize here by using replica methods. We first…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-15 Davide Venturelli , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Grégory Schehr , Marco Tarzia

We develop a statistical theory describing quantum-mechanical scattering of a particle by a cavity when the geometry is such that the classical dynamics is chaotic. This picture is relevant to a variety of systems, ranging from atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. A. Mello , H. U. Baranger