Generalized optical potential for weakly bound nuclei. I. Two-cluster projectiles

TL;DR

This paper develops a generalized optical potential model for elastic scattering of weakly bound nuclei, explicitly including projectile break-up effects, and demonstrates its application to deuteron scattering.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new microscopic model for optical potentials that incorporates projectile break-up continuum effects.

Findings

Successfully formulated the optical potential model.

Applied the model to deuteron elastic scattering.

Demonstrated the model's ability to account for break-up effects.

Abstract

A generalized optical potential for elastic scattering induced by light nuclei is calculated within the Feshbach projection operator method. The model explicitly takes into account the contribution of the projectile break-up continuum treated within a microscopic few-cluster model. In this work we formulate the model, deriving an explicit expression for the optical potential, and show ability of the model applying it to deuteron elastic scattering.