2020/08/31 by C. A. Bertulani, B. V. Carlson
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Breakup #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #Neutron #Neutron capture #Nuclear cross section #Nuclear physics research studies #Nuclear reaction #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Projectile #Scattering #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s13538-020-00824-0
10 pages, special volume of BJP on "Dynamics of complex systems", version to be published at the BJP
openalex created_date 2020/08/24 · openalex publication_date 2020/11/19 · arxiv created 2021/02/26 · arxiv updated 2021/03/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Alternative methods to calculate neutron capture cross sections on radioactive nuclei are reported using the theory of Inclusive Non-Elastic Breakup (INEB) developed by Hussein and McVoy [1]. The statistical coupled-channels theory proposed in Ref. [2] is further extended in the realm of random matrices. The case of reactions with the projectile and the target being two-cluster nuclei is also analyzed and applications are made for scattering from a deuteron target [3]. An extension of the theory to a three-cluster projectile incident on a two-cluster target is also discussed. The theoretical developments described here should open new possibilities to obtain information on the neutron capture cross sections of radioactive nuclei using indirect methods.