Proton interactions with nuclei to probe the neutron matter distribution of the nucleus

Abstract

Analyses of intermediate energy nucleon-nucleus scattering made using nonlocal optical potentials obtained by full folding medium modified effective NN interactions are sensitive to the target nucleon densities used. As the effective interaction and the structure details are all preset and no a posteriori adjustment or simplifying approximation is made to the (g-folded) optical potentials, the observables obtained are predictions and they match data well. The procedure, under inverse kinematics, also explains radio-active ion beam data from scattering of exotic, halo nuclei, from Hydrogen. © 2005 American Institute of Physics.