Toward a global description of the nucleus-nucleus interaction

By L. C. Chamon, B. V. Carlson, L. Gasques, D. Pereira, C. Conti, M. A. Alvarez, M. S. Hussein, M. Ribeiro, E. Rossi, C. P. Silva. 2002

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Extensive systematizations of theoretical and experimental nuclear densities and of optical potential strengths extracted from heavy-ion elastic scattering data analyses at low and intermediate energies are presented. The energy dependence of the nuclear potential is accounted for within a model based on the nonlocal nature of the interaction. The systematics indicates that the heavy-ion nuclear potential can be described in a simple global way through a double-folding shape, which basically depends only on the density of nucleons of the partners in the collision. The possibility of extracting information about the nucleon-nucleon interaction from the heavy-ion potential is investigated.

Subfields: Geophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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