1. A relativistic model for α-nucleus elastic scattering
- Author
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Jim Al-Khalili, S. Ait-Tahar, and Youcef Nedjadi
- Subjects
Physics ,Elastic scattering ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Nuclear Theory ,Dirac (software) ,Order (ring theory) ,Wave equation ,Nonlinear Sciences::Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Classical mechanics ,medicine ,Nuclear Experiment ,Nucleus ,Lorentz scalar - Abstract
It is the purpose of this paper to present the first relativistic description of alpha-nucleus elastic scattering using an optical model with the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) equation as the applicable wave equation. The DKP optical model potentials that are used are obtained by a folding procedure involving phenomenological Lorentz scalar and vector Dirac nucleon-nucleus potentials. In order to probe the DKP description of the alpha-nucleus interaction, we consider the elastic α-scattering on a range of nuclei over the 100 E
- Published
- 1995