The Scattering of Fast Nucleons from Nuclei

✍ Scribed by A.K. Kerman; H. McManus; R.M. Thaler

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 281
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1006/aphy.2000.6024

✦ Synopsis

The formal theory of the scattering of high-energy nucleons by nuclei is developed in terms of the nucleon nucleon scattering amplitude. The most important approximations necessary to make numerical calculation feasible are then examined. The optical model potential is derived on this basis and compared with the optical model parameters found from experiment. The elastic scattering and polarization of nucleons from light nuclei is predicted and compared with experiment. The effect of nuclear correlations is discussed. The polarization of inelastically scattered nucleons is discussed and predictions compared with experiments. To within the validity of the approximations the experimental data on the scattering of nucleons from nuclei at energies above t100 Mev appears to be consistent with the theory.