Nucleon Scattering from Very Light Nuclei: Intermediate Energy Expansions for Transition Potentials and Breakup Processes

Abstract

Optical potentials for elastic p-d scattering and the coupled processes p+${}^3$He $\to$ p+${}^3$He and p+${}^3$He $\to$ d+d are derived in the Faddeev-Yakubovsky framework with special emphasis on leading order terms, which are expected to be valid at intermediate energies. In addition, equations for the fragmentations ${}^3$He(p,ppp)n and ${}^3$He(p,pp)d are derived within the same framework. Again leading order terms for intermediate energies are considered.

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