Nuclear Reaction Theory
Antonio M. Moro
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
UK Nuclear Physics Summer School Belfast, 18th-21st August 2017 Introduction Weakly-bound vs. “normal” nuclei in reaction observables Modelling reactions Single-channel scattering: the optical model Inelastic scattering
Table of contents I
1 Introduction 2 Weakly-bound vs. “normal” nuclei in reaction observables 3 Modelling reactions Feshbach formalism: P and Q spaces Defining the modelspace 4 Single-channel scattering: the optical model Optical model formalism Elastic scattering of weakly-bound nuclei 5 Inelastic scattering General features of inelastic scattering Collective excitations Inelastic scattering within a few-body model 6 Breakup The CDCC method Exploring the continuum with breakup reactions Structures in the continuum 7 Transfer reactions General considerations
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Table of contents II Formal treatment of transfer reactions Transfer reactions with weakly bound nuclei Accessing continuum structures via transfer reactions
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Unstable nuclei and the limits of stability
Note that: Not all unstable nuclei are weakly-bound. There are weakly-bound nuclei which are not unstable (eg. deuteron).
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Light exotic nuclei: halo nuclei and Borromean systems