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The neutron microscopic optical potential (MOP) based on Skyrme interaction has been
achieved by the Green function method in the nuclear matter, and given by the local
density approximation (LDA) for finite nuclei. The total cross-sections, nonelastic cross-
sections, elastic scattering angular distributions and analyzing powers are predicted for
some light nuclei and actinide nuclei below 100 MeV by the obtained neutron MOP
with the Skyrme interaction SkC. These data are also predicted for targets in the mass
range of 148 ≤ A ≤ 194 which are too deformed and have rich nuclear structure prop-
erties. All of the theoretical results give reasonable agreements with the corresponding
experimental data.
1. Introduction
As is well known, the microscopic optical potential (MOP) is achieved on the basis
of nucleon–nucleon interaction and need not adjust parameters to fit the experimen-
tal data. It can provide many information about the theoretical and experimental
studies of nuclear reaction, especially for unstable nuclei.
From the many-body theory standpoint, the nucleon MOP can be equivalent to
the mass operator of the single-particle Green function.1,2 It becomes possible to
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obtain a MOP using the many-body theory without free parameters. However, we
have to make some approximation in the process of calculating the mass operator
which needs to solve the many-body problem. Generally, two approaches are used to
get the MOP. One is nuclear structure approximation. Since this approach is based
on the nuclear ground state properties and especially analyzes a certain target, it
involves more nuclear structure features of target.3,4 The other is nuclear matter
approximation. There are currently two kinds of nucleon–nucleon interactions to
achieve the MOP in this approach, which are the realistic nuclear force, such as
the Reid potential5 and the modern nucleon–nucleon potentials,6 and the effective
nuclear force. The effective Skyrme nucleon–nucleon interactions are widely used in
the calculation.7,8
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(a) (b)
Fig. 1. The first-order Feynman diagram of the one-particle Green function. The dashed line
represents the mean field.
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diagram. Figures 1 and 2 respectively depict the first- and second-order Feynman
diagrams of the single-particle Green function.
Furthermore, the first-order mass operator has the following form:
(1)
Mα,α = Vαρ,αρ nρ , (1)
ρ
where
1, below the Fermi surface;
nρ = (2)
0, above the Fermi surface.
The term on the right-hand side of Eq. (1) comes from the contribution of the
two-body interaction, the matrix element is
Vαρ,αρ = αρ | V | αρA , (3)
where A denotes the anti-symmetrization.
The second-order mass operator is
(2) 1 (1 − nλ )(1 − nµ )nν
Mα,α (ω) = Vαν,λµ Vλµ,αν , (4)
2 εα + εν − ελ − εµ + iη
λµν
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The real part of the neutron MOP is obtained with the first-order mass operator
and the expression is
(1)
Vn = Mα,α = Vαρ,αρ , (6)
ρ≤F
found in Ref. 8.
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The MOP for finite nuclei is given by the LDA. It is assumed that the densities
of neutron and proton in a spherical nucleus have the same geometrical distributions
and are expressed by Negele’s empirical formula.9
The real part of spin-orbit potential obtained by the SHF approach has been
amended by the results of relativistic MOP, which is considered the correlation
with incident energy.13 The imaginary part of spin-orbit potential below 100 MeV
provides slight contribution to the neutron MOP and is ignored here.
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Fig. 3. Calculated elastic scattering angular distributions at incident neutron energy 11.0 MeV
compared with experimental data. The results are respectively calculated by Skyrme interaction
parameter SkC (solid line), SKa (short-dash line) and Sly4 (dash line), which are offset by factors
of 10.
Based on the above discussions and analysis, we adopt the Skyrme interac-
tion parameters SkC to obtain the neutron MOP for those data without involving
in their fittings. On this basis, the neutron induced total cross-sections, nonelas-
tic cross-sections, elastic scattering angular distributions and analyzing powers for
some light nuclei and actinide nuclei are predicted with incident energy below 100
MeV. In addition, these data for targets in the mass range of 148 ≤ A ≤ 194 are
also predicted.
First, the total cross-sections for some light nuclei and actinide nuclei are pre-
dicted by the neutron MOP based on the Skyrme force SkC. Figure 5 presents the
predicted total cross-sections for targets 12 C, 14 N, 16 O and 23 Na below 100 MeV.
These results are compared with the experimental data.25–31 Obviously, the theo-
retical results just give the smooth average results from 0.1 to 8 MeV or so, which is
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(a) (b)
Fig. 4. Radial dependence of the real and imaginary parts of neutron MOP for target 27 Al at
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incident energies 10, 30, 50, 70 and 90 MeV. (a) The real part and (b) the imaginary part.
Fig. 5. Comparisons of the neutron total cross-sections with experimental data for targets 12 C,
14 N, 16 O and 23 Na in the energy range from 0.1 to 100 MeV. The results are offset by factors of
10.
the resonance region with large amplitudes. The results for 14 N, 16 O and 23 Na are
in agreement with the experimental data in the whole energy region, while those of
12
C are slightly larger than the experimental data above 70 MeV. Figure 6 shows
the predicted total cross-sections for actinide nuclei 232 Th, 235,238 U and 239 Pu below
100 MeV, which are compared with the experimental data.25,26,32–36 The reasonable
agreements are also obtained between them.
Second, the nonelastic cross-sections are predicted for some light nuclei and
actinide nuclei. For most of targets, the experimental data of nonelastic cross-
sections are given below 20 MeV. Our results for 12 C, 14 N, 16 O and 23 Na are very
close to experimental data below 20 MeV. For actinide, the predicted nonelas-
tic cross-sections are also in reasonable agreements with the experimental data.
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Fig. 6. Same as Fig. 5, but for targets 232 Th, 235,238 U and 239 Pu.
Figure 7 gives the comparisons of the predicted nonelastic cross-sections with the
experimental data37–49 for actinide nuclei 232 Th, 235,238 U and 239 Pu.
Then, the elastic scattering angular distributions are also predicted for some
light nuclei and actinide nuclei. Figures 8 and 9 give the satisfactory agreements
Fig. 7. Comparisons of the nonelastic cross-sections with experimental data for actinide nuclei
232 Th, 235,238 U and 239 Pu in the energy range from 0.1 to 100 MeV. The curve and data points
at the bottom represent true values, while the others are respectively added by 1.5, 3.0, 4.5.
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(a) (b)
Fig. 8. Comparisons of the elastic scattering angular distributions with experimental data for
target 12 C. The results are offset by factors of 10.
between the predicted results and the experimental data50–72 for 12 C and 23 Na.
For actinide nuclei 232 Th, 235,238 U and 239 Pu, the angular distributions including
the results of elastic and inelastic scattering were given in some experimental data.
Figure 10 shows the comparisons of the predicted elastic scattering angular dis-
tributions with the experimental data73 for 238 U. It is seen that the significant
differences appear near the first minimum, where the inelastic scattering is not
considered in the predicted results. The analogous results are obtained for 232 Th,
235
U and 239 Pu.
Furthermore, those nuclei in the mass range of 148 ≤ A ≤ 194 have been widely
concerned in recent years and there are some new experimental data. So the elastic
scattering angular distributions are also predicted for these target below 100 MeV.
Figure 11 presents the satisfactory agreements between the predicted results and
the experimental data74–76 for 152 Sm and 192 Os.
Figures 12 and 13 show the comparisons between the predicted elastic scattering
angular distributions and different experimental data for 181 Ta and 184 W targets.
There are only the experimental data below about 16 MeV and some experi-
mental data of angular distributions include the results of elastic and inelastic
scattering for them. In Fig. 12(a), it can be seen that the significant differences
between the predicted results and the experimental data77 appear near the first
minimum, where the results of inelastic scattering is not included in the prediction.
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Fig. 11. Same as Fig. 8, but for targets 152 Sm and 192 Os.
(a) (b)
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Figure 12(b) shows the predicted results are reasonable agreements with experi-
mental data24,78–83 except for incident energy 15.2 MeV above 100◦ degree, where
they are a slightly smaller than the experimental data from Ref. 82. In Fig. 13, we
can also see the predicted elastic scattering angular distributions are smaller than
the experimental data84–91 near the first minimum at incident energies 4.34, 6.44,
7.54, 7.76 and 8.56 MeV, where the experimental data include the results of elastic
and inelastic scattering.
Finally, we also perform the predictions of analyzing powers Ay (θ) for some tar-
gets and different incident energies. The reasonable agreements are also achieved
between the predicted results and experimental data. The comparisons of the pre-
dicted analyzing powers with the experimental data86,92–97 for 12 C, 184 W and 238 U
are given in Figs. 14 and 15.
From the above analysis and discussions, we can see that the predicted results
are satisfactorily in agreement with the experimental data for some light nuclei and
actinide nuclei. For targets in the mass range of 148 ≤ A ≤ 194, the predicted results
are slightly smaller than the corresponding experimental data at a few energies. The
reason may be that they be too deformed and have very rich properties of nuclear
structure. So we will apply the coupling theory of optical model to improve the
prediction for those reactions of neutron induced deformed targets in the future
work, which takes into account the strong channel coupling to the first collective
excited states.
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Fig. 14. Comparisons of the analyzing powers with experimental data for target 12 C. The curves
and data points at the bottom represent true values, while the others are added by 2.0.
Fig. 15. Same as Fig. 14, but for targets 184 W and 238 U.
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4. Summary
The neutron MOP has been obtained by Green function method through nuclear
matter approximation and LDA based on the Skyrme nucleon–nucleon effective
interaction. The Skyrme interaction parameters SkC are adopted to achieve the
neutron MOP for those data without involving in their fittings. Based on the
obtained MOP, the total cross-sections, nonelastic cross-sections, elastic scatter-
ing angular distributions and analyzing powers are predicted for some light nuclei
and actinide nuclei below 100 MeV. In addition, they are also predicted for nuclei
in the mass range of 148 ≤ A ≤ 194. All of the predicted results are satisfactorily in
agreement with the experimental data. The performed calculations show that the
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obtained neutron MOP in this paper has a good prediction power and can provide
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a reasonable theoretical basis for the experimental research far from β stability
nuclide.
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
under Grants Nos. 11347175, 11405099, 11175260 and 11575291.
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