Monte Carlo Eikonal Scattering

TL;DR

This paper employs Monte Carlo methods to evaluate heavy-ion elastic scattering, incorporating Coulomb interactions and center-of-mass corrections, and introduces an efficient partial wave expansion technique for Glauber amplitudes.

Contribution

It presents a novel Monte Carlo approach for calculating heavy-ion scattering with improved accuracy and an efficient partial wave expansion method for Glauber amplitudes.

Findings

Angular distributions for various nuclear pairs across energy ranges.

Effective incorporation of Coulomb and center-of-mass effects.

Development of an efficient partial wave expansion technique.

Abstract

Monte Carlo evaluation is used to calculate heavy-ion elastic scattering including the center-of-mass correction and the Coulomb interaction.Angular distributions are presented for a number of nuclear pairs over a wide energy range using nucleon-nucleon scattering parameters taken from phase-shift analyses and densities from independent sources. A technique for the efficient expansion of the Glauber amplitude in partial waves is developed.