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Glauber models based on nucleon--nucleon interactions are commonly used to characterize the initial state in high-energy nuclear collisions, and the dependence of its properties on impact parameter or number of participating nucleons. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-10-18 Constantin Loizides

Elastic scattering data gained for proton-proton collisions at high energies are being analyzed at the present practically only with the help of purely phenomenological mathematical models. And the question exists whether in the impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-18 Milos V. Lokajicek , V. Kundrat

We make a QCD-inspired parameterization of all accelerator data on forward proton-proton and antiproton-proton scattering amplitudes. Using vector dominance and the additive quark model, we show that the same parameters also fit gamma p and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Block , F. Halzen , G. Pancheri , T. Stanev

The Glauber modeling plays a key role in centrality-dependent measurements of heavy-ion collisions. A central input parameter in Glauber models is the inelastic nucleon-nucleon cross section $\sigma_{\text{nn}}^{\text{inel}}$ which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-01 Kari J. Eskola , Ilkka Helenius , Mikko Kuha , Hannu Paukkunen

A detailed formulation of the relativistic plane-wave Born approximation for inelastic collisions of charged particles with free atoms and positive ions is presented. The wave functions of the target atom or ion are calculated from a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Francesc Salvat

A systematic analysis is made on the total reaction cross sections for Ne, Mg, Si, and S isotopes. The high-energy nucleus-nucleus collision is described based on the Glauber model. Using the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 W. Horiuchi , T. Inakura , T. Nakatsukasa , Y. Suzuki

We systematically analyze nuclear reaction data that are sensitive to nuclear size, namely, proton-nucleus total reaction cross sections and differential elastic cross sections, using a phenomenological black-sphere approximation of nuclei…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-21 Akihisa Kohama , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

PROJET is a parton level Monte Carlo program for the calculation of jet cross sections in deeply inelastic electron proton scattering. In its present version it contains the Born level diagrams for the production of (1+1), (2+1) and (3+1)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Dirk Graudenz

Using coupled-cluster theory and interactions from chiral effective field theory, we compute overlap functions for transfer and scattering of low-energy protons on the target nucleus 40-Ca. Effects of three-nucleon forces are included…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-08-14 G. Hagen , N. Michel

Antiproton-nucleus optical potentials fitted to $\bar p$-atom level shifts and widths are used to calculate the recently reported very low energy ($p_{L}<100$ MeV/c) $\bar p$ cross sections for annihilation on light nuclei. The apparent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Avraham Gal

The Glauber method is extensively used to describe the motion of a hadronic projectile in interaction with the surrounding nuclear medium. One of the main approximations consists in the linearization of the wave equation for the interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Bianconi , M. Radici

The problem of electron-proton scattering is handed over both the elastic and inelastic scattering. Two models are presented in this sense. The first, depends on the multi photon exchange ladder diagram, where the transition matrix is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. T. Hussein , R. Elmualed , N. M. Hassan

The differential elastic cross sections of $^{12}$C - $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O - $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne - $^{20}$Ne nuclei scattering are calculated in the complete Glauber theory with the account of the modification due to Coulomb interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Yu. M. Shabelski , A. G. Shuvaev

Background: Proton elastic scattering at intermediate energy is widely employed as a tool for determining the matter radius of atomic nuclei. The sensitivity of the approach relies on high-resolution measurements at small scattering angles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 J. C. Zamora

Differential cross sections for electromagnetic dissociation in nucleus-nucleus collisions are calculated. The kinetic energy distribution is parameterized with a Boltzmann distribution and the angular distribution is assumed isotropic in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 John W. Norbury , Anne Adamczyk

High energy photoproduction off nuclear targets is studied within the Glauber-Gribov approximation. The photon is assumed to interact as a $q\bar{q}$-system according to the Generalized Vector Dominance Model and as a ``bare photon'' in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Engel , J. Ranft , S. Roesler

``Glauber'' models are used to calculate geometric quantities in the initial state of heavy ion collisions, such as impact parameter, number of participating nucleons and initial eccentricity. The four RHIC experiments have different…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-05-29 B. Alver , M. Baker , C. Loizides , P. Steinberg

The cross section of a given process fundamentally quantifies the probability for that given process to occur. In the quantum regime of low energies, the cross section can vary strongly with collision energy due to quantum effects. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Ruti Ben-shlomi , Meirav Pinkas , Ziv Meir , Tomas Sikorsky , Or Katz , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri

Existing data on near-barrier fusion excitation functions of medium and heavy nucleus-nucleus systems have been analyzed using a simple diffused barrier formula derived assuming the Gaussian shape of the barrier height distributions. Fusion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Debasis Atta , D. N. Basu

We present a short review of theoretical results (mainly for experimentalists) published in many different papers. The formulae are presented for the different integrated cross sections, the number of interacting nucleons, multiplicities of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dias de Deus , Yu. M. Shabelski