The Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method and its applications to perturbation induced reactions

TL;DR

The paper reviews the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method, highlighting its efficiency in calculating electroweak cross sections in light nuclei and discussing its implications for nuclear physics understanding.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the LIT method and summarizes its successful applications to electroweak reactions in few-nucleon systems.

Findings

Efficient calculation of electroweak cross sections in light nuclei.

Successful application of LIT to continuum state reactions.

Implications for understanding microscopic nuclear dynamics.

Abstract

The LIT method has allowed ab initio calculations of electroweak cross sections in light nuclear systems. This review presents a description of the method from both a general and a more technical point of view, as well as a summary of the results obtained by its application. The remarkable features of the LIT approach, which make it particularly efficient in dealing with a general reaction involving continuum states, are underlined. Emphasis is given on the results obtained for electroweak cross sections of few--nucleon systems. Their implications for the present understanding of microscopic nuclear dynamics are discussed.