Approach to nuclear cross sections via classical Skyrmion scattering: A proposal

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel method to calculate nuclear collision cross sections using classical Skyrmion scattering data, drawing an analogy with heavy ion collision modeling, and suggests classifying outgoing particle data into bins for analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach to estimate nuclear cross sections through classical Skyrmion scattering simulations, bridging nuclear physics and topological soliton models.

Findings

Classical Skyrmion scattering can model nuclear collision cross sections.

Outgoing particle data can be classified into bins similar to experimental methods.

The approach offers a new computational framework for nuclear physics studies.

Abstract

By analogy with heavy ion collisions, which can be modelled by a classical hydrodynamics, it is proposed that the differential cross section for collisions of smaller nuclei can be calculated from the classical, numerical scattering data for Skyrmions. It is also suggested that the numerical data for the outgoing particles should be classified into bins, as is done in nuclear physics experiments.