Optical potentials for the rare-isotope beam era

C Hebborn, FM Nunes, G Potel… - Journal of Physics G …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent progress and motivate the need for further developments in nuclear optical
potentials that are widely used in the theoretical analysis of nucleon elastic scattering and …

Ab Initio Optical Potentials and Nucleon Scattering on Medium Mass Nuclei

A Idini, C Barbieri, P Navrátil - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We derive ab initio optical potentials from self-consistent Green's function theory and
compute the elastic scattering of neutrons off oxygen and calcium isotopes. The comparison …

Coupled-cluster computations of optical potential for medium-mass nuclei

J Rotureau - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent progress in the numerical solution of the nuclear many-body problem and in the
development of nuclear Hamiltonians rooted in Quantum Chromodynamics, has opened the …

Global microscopic description of nucleon-nucleus scattering with quantified uncertainties

TR Whitehead, Y Lim, JW Holt - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We develop for the first time a microscopic global nucleon-nucleus optical potential with
quantified uncertainties suitable for analyzing nuclear reaction experiments at next …

Elastic proton scattering off nonzero spin nuclei

M Vorabbi, M Gennari, P Finelli, C Giusti, P Navrátil… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Background: In recent years, we constructed a microscopic optical potential (OP) for elastic
nucleon-nucleus (NA) scattering using modern approaches based on chiral theories for the …

Exploring experimental conditions to reduce uncertainties in the optical potential

M Catacora-Rios, GB King, AE Lovell, FM Nunes - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
Background: Uncertainty quantification for nuclear theories has gained a more prominent
role in the field, with more groups attempting to understand the uncertainties in their …

Halo effective field theory analysis of one-neutron knockout reactions of and

C Hebborn, P Capel - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Background: One-nucleon knockout reactions provide insightful information on the single-
particle structure of nuclei. When applied to one-neutron halo nuclei, they are purely …

Statistical tools for a better optical model

M Catacora-Rios, GB King, AE Lovell, FM Nunes - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Background: Modern statistical tools provide the ability to compare the information content of
observables and provide a path to explore which experiments would be most useful to give …

Impact of three-body forces on elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering observables

M Vorabbi, M Gennari, P Finelli, C Giusti, P Navrátil… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Background: In a previous series of papers we investigated the domain of applicability of
chiral potentials to the construction of a microscopic optical potential (OP) for elastic nucleon …

Prediction for () charge-exchange reactions with uncertainty quantification

TR Whitehead, T Poxon-Pearson, FM Nunes, G Potel - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Background: Charge-exchange reactions are a powerful tool for exploring nuclear structure
and nuclear astrophysics; however, a robust charge-exchange reaction theory with …