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Analytic optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus nucleus-nucleus collisions involving light and medium nuclei

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6508484
Utilizing an optical model potential approximation to the exact nucleus-nucleus multiple-scattering series, optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions are analytically derived. These expressions are applicable to light and medium cosmic ray nuclei as their single-particle density distributions are analytically determined, without approximation, from their actual harmonic well charge density distributions. Pauli correlation effects are included through the use of a simple Gaussian function to replace the usual expression obtained in the infinite nuclear matter approximation.
Research Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, VA (USA). Langley Research Center; Old Dominion Univ.
OSTI ID:
6508484
Report Number(s):
NASA-TM-83224
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English