Energy dependence and surface contribution of the nucleon-nucleus scattering optical potential at energies up to 1 GeV/nucleon

Project title:Energy dependence and surface contribution of the nucleon-nucleus scattering optical potential at energies up to 1 GeV

Dates and places of research: Philadelphia University, Jordan, 2019-2020.

Sources of funding: IIE-SRF Fellowship award from the Scholar Rescue Fund program from the Institute of International Education

Role in the project: The main researcher

Output of the project: Two articles as follow:

  1. H.M. Maridi, “Energy dependence and surface contribution of the nucleon-nucleus optical potential”, Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 84, 473 (2020).

  2. H.M. Maridi, “Energy dependence and surface contribution of the optical potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering at energies up to 1 GeV”, Phys. Rev. C 100, 014613 (2019).

Description

An energy-dependent microscopic optical model potential (OP) is presented to analyze the elastic scattering of protons with incident energies up to 1000 MeV/nucleon on 9Be nucleus. This microscopic optical model is built from the single-folding optical model. The density- and isospin-dependent M3Y-Paris nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction is used for the real and spin-orbit parts and the NN-scattering amplitude of the high-energy approximation for the imaginary one. The microscopic complex spin-orbit OP is taken within Breiva-Rook approximation. The partial-wave expansion analysis with this optical model potential fails to reproduce the differential cross-section data at energies larger than 100 MeV/nucleon, a good improvement is obtained by including the surface contribution to the imaginary OP where most of the basic scattering observables are reproduced well at the considered wide energy range. The volume integrals are found to be have interesting energy dependencies and their parametrizations can be used to build an energy-dependent microscopic OP that is used to reproduce the observables at a wide energy range. This study shows that the partial-wave expansion analysis using the folding optical model can be used to analyze the scattering data at high energies as well as at low energies.