Microscopic Composition of Ion-Ion Interaction Potentials

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel method for calculating ion-ion interaction potentials by decomposing them into single-particle contributions, enabling detailed analysis of nuclear collisions.

Contribution

The method uniquely allows for the separation of neutron and proton contributions to the interaction potential within a time-dependent Hartree-Fock framework.

Findings

Effective decomposition of ion-ion potentials into single-particle components

Application to nuclear collision simulations

Enhanced understanding of neutron and proton contributions

Abstract

We present a new method to calculate the total ion-ion interaction potential in terms of building blocks which we refer to as "single-particle interaction potentials". This allows also to compose the separate contributions from neutrons and protons to the interaction potentials. The method is applied to nuclear collisions via the use of time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory.