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Y. Kucuk

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arXiv2026

Probing nuclear interactions \`a la Rutherford: Insights on $^4$He from $\alpha$ scattering

Nuclear interactions play a key role for the stability of atomic nuclei and stellar environments. Successful parametrization and models of these interactions, developed in the last decades, accurately reproduce all the proton and neutron scattering data, besides the properties of few-body nuclear systems. However, recent electron scattering results focusing on the first excited resonant state of $^4$He nucleus, reveal a puzzling situation suggesting potential gaps in our understanding of the nuclear phenomenology. Here, we report a new study of such $^4$He resonance by $^4$He + $^4$He scattering featuring data of unprecedented sensitivity and state-of-art analyses of the spectral line shape together with a phenomenological reaction modeling that incorporates the same nuclear densities employed in electron-scattering studies. Our analysis of the full set of experimental observables yields a reasonable description within the framework of current nuclear-interaction physics, thereby highlighting the need for further advancing the modeling of few-body open quantum systems.

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arXiv2024

Nuclear Fragmentation at the Future Electron-Ion Collider

We explore the potential of conducting low-energy nuclear physics studies, including nuclear structure and decay, at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven. By comparing the standard theory of electron-nucleus scattering with the equivalent photon method applied to Ultraperipheral Collisions (UPC) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In the limit of extremely high beam energies and small energy transfers, very transparent equations emerge. We apply these equations to analyze nuclear fragmentation in UPCs at the LHC and $eA$ scattering at the EIC, demonstrating that the EIC could facilitate unique photonuclear physics studies. However, we have also shown that the fragmentation cross-sections at the EIC are about 1,000 times smaller than those at the LHC. At the LHC, the fragmentation of uranium nuclei displays characteristic double-hump mass distributions from fission events, while at the EIC, fragmentation is dominated by neutron emission and fewer few fission products, about 10,000 smaller number of events.

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arXiv2020

Fission of relativistic nuclei with fragment excitation and reorientation

Experimental studies of fission induced in relativistic nuclear collisions show a systematic enhancement of the excitation energy of the primary fragments by a factor of ~ 2, before their decay by fission and other secondary fragments. Although it is widely accepted that by doubling the energies of the single-particle states may yield a better agreement with fission data, it does not prove fully successful, since it is not able to explain yields for light and intermediate mass fragments. State-of-the-art calculations are successful to describe the overall shape of the mass distribution of fragments, but fail within a factor of 2-10 for a large number of individual yields. Here, we present a novel approach that provides an account of the additional excitation of primary fragments due to final state interaction with the target. Our method is applied to the 238U + 208Pb reaction at 1 GeV/nucleon (and is applicable to other energies), an archetype case of fission studies with relativistic heavy ions, where we find that the large probability of energy absorption through final state excitation of giant resonances in the fragments can substantially modify the isotopic distribution of final fragments in a better agreement with data. Finally, we demonstrate that large angular momentum transfers to the projectile and to the primary fragments via the same mechanism imply the need of more elaborate theoretical methods than the presently existing ones.

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arXiv2014

Intermediate energy four-body breakup calculations for 22C

The heaviest particle-bound carbon isotope, $^{22}$C, is thought to have a Borromean three-body structure. We discuss and compare four-body, i.e. three-body projectile plus target, reaction model calculations of reaction cross sections for such systems that use the fast adiabatic approximation. These methods are efficient and well-suited for quantitative analyses of reactions of neutron-rich nuclei with light target nuclei at secondary beam energies of $\approx$300 MeV/nucleon, as are now becoming available. We compare the predictions of the adiabatic model of the reaction both without and when including the additional eikonal approximation that has been used extensively. We show that the reaction cross section calculations have only limited sensitivity to the size and structure of $^{22}$C and that the differences arising from use of the eikonal approximation of the reaction mechanism are of a similar magnitude.

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arXiv2009

The Onset of Nuclear Structure Effects in Near-Barrier Elastic Scattering of Weakly-Bound Nuclei: $^6$He and $^6$Li Compared

The elastic scattering of the halo nucleus $^6$He from heavy targets at incident energies near the Coulomb barrier displays a marked deviation from the standard Fresnel-type diffraction behavior. This deviation is due to the strong Coulomb dipole breakup coupling produced by the Coulomb field of the heavy target, a specific feature of the nuclear structure of $^6$He. We have performed Continuum Discretized Coupled Channels calculations for the elastic scattering of $^{6}$He and $^6$Li from $^{58}$Ni, $^{120}$Sn, $^{144}$Sm, $^{181}$Ta and $^{208}$Pb targets in order to determine the range of $Z_{\mathrm T}$ where this nuclear-structure specific coupling effect becomes manifest. We find that the strong Coulomb dipole breakup coupling effect is only clearly experimentally distinguishable for targets of $Z_{\mathrm T} \approx 80$.

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arXiv2009

Global Optical Potential for the Elastic Scattering of $^{6}$He at Low Energies

A set of global optical potential has been derived to describe the interactions of $^{6}$He at low energies. The elastic scattering angular distribution data measured so far for many systems, ranging from $^{12}$C to $^{209}$Bi, have been considered within the framework of the optical model in order to find a global potential set to describe the experimental data consistently. We report that very good agreement between theoretical and experimental results has been obtained with small $χ^{2}/N$ values by using the derived potential set. The reaction cross section and volume integrals of the potentials have been deduced from the theoretical calculations for all studied systems at relevant energies.

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arXiv2006

Failure of the Standard Coupled-Channels Method in Describing the Inelastic Reaction Data: On the Use of a New Shape for the Coupling Potential

We present the failure of the standard coupled-channels method in explaining the inelastic scattering together with other observables such as elastic scattering, excitation function and fusion data. We use both microscopic double-folding and phenomenological deep potentials with shallow imaginary components. We argue that the solution of the problems for the inelastic scattering data is not related to the central nuclear potential, but to the coupling potential between excited states. We present that these problems can be addressed in a systematic way by using a different shape for the coupling potential instead of the usual one based on Taylor expansion.

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arXiv2006

Global Examination of the $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C Reaction Data at Low and Intermediate Energies

We examine the $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C elastic scattering over a wide energy range from 32.0 to 70.7 MeV in the laboratory system within the framework of the Optical model and the Coupled-Channels formalism. The $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C system has been extensively studied within and over this energy range in the past. These efforts have been futile in determining the shape of the nuclear potential in the low energy region and in describing the individual angular distributions, single-angle 50$^{0}$ to 90$^{0}$ excitation functions and reaction cross-section data simultaneously. In order to address these problems systematically, we propose a potential that belongs to a family other than the one used to describe higher energy experimental data and show that it is possible to use it over this wide energy range. This potential also predicts the resonances at correct energies with reasonable widths.

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