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We develop for the first time a microscopic global nucleon-nucleus optical potential with quantified uncertainties suitable for analyzing nuclear reaction experiments at next-generation rare-isotope beam facilities. Within the improved…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

We formulate microscopic neutron-nucleus optical potentials from many-body perturbation theory based on chiral two- and three-body forces. The neutron self energy is first calculated in homogeneous matter to second order in perturbation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

All contemporary phenomenological models of elastic hadronic scattering have been based in principle on the assumption of optical theorem validity that has been overtaken from optics. It will be shown that the given theorem which has not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Milos V. Lokajicek , Vojtech Kundrat , Jiri Prochazka

We investigate theoretical approaches to pion--nucleus elastic scattering at high energies (300 $\le T_\pi \le$ 1 GeV). A ``model--exact'' calculation of the lowest--order microscopic optical model, carried out in momentum space and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 C. M. Chen , D. J. Ernst , M. B. Johnson

In the framework of the double folding model, we used the {\alpha}+2n and di-triton configurations for the nuclear matter density of the 6He nucleus to generate the real part of the optical potential for the system 6He+12C. As an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-04 Awad A. Ibraheem

All contemporary phenomenological models of elastic hadronic scattering have been based on the assumption of validity of optical theorem that was overtaken from optics. It has been stated that it may be proven in particle physics. However,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-03 Jiri Prochazka , Vojtech Kundrat , Milos V. Lokajicek

The experimental data on the $^{16}$O$+^{12}$C and $^{18}$O$+^{12}$C elastic scatterings and their optical model analysis are presented. Detailed and complete elastic angular distributions have been measured at the Strasbourg Vivitron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Szilner , M. P. Nicoli , Z. Basrak , R. M. Freeman , F. Haas , A. Morsad , M. E. Brandan , G. R. Satchler

We perform a first-principle calculation of optical potentials for nucleon elastic scattering off medium-mass isotopes. Fully based on a saturating chiral Hamiltonian, the optical potentials are derived by folding nuclear density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Matteo Vorabbi , Carlo Barbieri , Vittorio Somà , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti

The recent works by the present authors predicted that the real part of heavy-ion optical potentials changes its character from attraction to repulsion around the incident energy per nucleon E/A = 200 - 300 MeV on the basis of the complex…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-20 T. Furumoto , Y. Sakuragi , Y. Yamamoto

Double--folded optical $\alpha$--nucleus potentials can be used to calculate elastic scattering cross sections in a wide mass-- and energy region. Because of the systematic behavior of the potential parameters we are able to obtain reliable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 P. Mohr , H. Abele , U. Atzrott , G. Staudt , R. Bieber , K. Grün , H. Oberhummer , T. Rauscher , E. Somorjai

Background: Elastic scattering is probably the main event in the interactions of nucleons with nuclei. Even if this process has been extensively studied in the last years, a consistent description, i.e., starting from microscopic two- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Vorabbi , P. Finelli , C. Giusti

A brief historical overview of various modern approaches to the problem under consideration is given. It includes existing models based on a sum of different terms of the scattering amplitude with different signs and Regge-eikonal models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 O. V. Selyugin

It is shown that a relativistic multiple scattering theory for hadron-nucleus scattering can be consistently formulated in four-dimensions in the context of meson exchange. We give a multiple scattering series for the optical potential and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Khin Maung Maung , John W. Norbury , Trina Coleman

Relativistic corrections to the reaction kinematic parameters were made for elastic scattering of \nuc{6}{Li}, \nuc{12}{C} and \nuc{40}{Ar} from \nuc{40}{Ca}, \nuc{90}{Zr}, and \nuc{208}{Pb} targets at incident energies between 20 and 100…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-02 Pang Dan-Yang

A microscopic optical potential (OP) is derived from NN chiral potentials at the first-order term within the spectator expansion of the multiple scattering theory and adopting the impulse approximation. The performances of our OP are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 C. Giusti , M. Vorabbi , P. Finelli

A relativistic analysis of the polarization properties of light elastically scattered by atomic hydrogen is performed, based on the Dirac equation and second order perturbation theory. The relativistic atomic states used for the…

The process of the elastic scattering of photons on atoms, known as the Rayleigh scattering, is investigated. Expressing the scattering observables in terms of the electric and magnetic complex scattering amplitudes, we work over the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 A. V. Volotka , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

High precision angular distribution data of ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) elastic scattering are presented for the nuclei $^{89}$Y, $^{92}$Mo, $^{106,110,116}$Cd, $^{112,124}$Sn, and $^{144}$Sm at energies around the Coulomb barrier. Such data with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-05 P. Mohr , G. G. Kiss , Zs. Fülöp , D. Galaviz , Gy. Gyürky , E. Somorjai

After giving a short review on the impact picture approach for the elastic scattering amplitude, we will discuss the importance of some issues related to its real and imaginary parts. This will be illustrated in the context of recent data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-19 Jacques Soffer

A new method for the determination of the real part of the elastic scattering amplitude is examined for high energy proton-proton and proton-nuclei elastic scattering at small momentum transfer. This method allows to decrease the number of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Nicolescu , O. V. Selyugin