Nuclear Force Imprints Revealed on the Elastic Scattering of Protons with C 10

How does nature hold together protons and neutrons to form the wide variety of complex nuclei in the universe? Describing many-nucleon systems from the fundamental theory of quantum chromodynamics has been the greatest challenge in answering this question. The chiral effective field theory descripti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2017-06, Vol.118 (26)
Hauptverfasser: Kumar, A., Kanungo, R., Calci, A., Navrátil, P., Sanetullaev, A., Alcorta, M., Bildstein, V., Christian, G., Davids, B., Dohet-Eraly, J., Fallis, J., Gallant, A. T., Hackman, G., Hadinia, B., Hupin, G., Ishimoto, S., Krücken, R., Laffoley, A. T., Lighthall, J., Miller, D., Quaglioni, S., Randhawa, J. S., Rand, E. T., Rojas, A., Roth, R., Shotter, A., Tanaka, J., Tanihata, I., Unsworth, C.
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Zusammenfassung:How does nature hold together protons and neutrons to form the wide variety of complex nuclei in the universe? Describing many-nucleon systems from the fundamental theory of quantum chromodynamics has been the greatest challenge in answering this question. The chiral effective field theory description of the nuclear force now makes this possible but requires certain parameters that are not uniquely determined. Defining the nuclear force needs identification of observables sensitive to the different parametrizations. From a measurement of proton elastic scattering on 10C at TRIUMF and ab initio nuclear reaction calculations we show that the shape and magnitude of the measured differential cross section is strongly sensitive to the nuclear force prescription.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.118.262502