Phenomenological and Theoretical Optical Potentials

C Giusti
2017 Bulg. J. Phys   unpublished
The optical potential (OP) is a powerful instrument for calculations on a wide variety of nuclear reactions, in particular, for quasi-elastic lepton-nucleus scattering. Phenomenological OPs are successful in the description of data but may produce uncertainties in the interpretation of the results. Two recent theoretical OPs are presented: a global relativistic folding OP, that has been employed in relativistic models for quasi-elastic lepton-nucleus scattering, and a nonrelativistic OP derived
more » ... from nucleon-nucleon chiral potentials at fourth order (N 3 LO), that has been applied to elastic proton-nucleus scattering.
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