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Title: Advanced Elastic/Inelastic Nuclear Data Development Project

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1203238· OSTI ID:1203238

The optical model is used to analyze the elastic and inelastic scattering of nucleons, deuterons, hellions, tritons, and alpha particles by the nuclei. Since this paper covers primarily neutron-nucleus scattering, the focus will be limited to only that interaction. For the sake of this model, the nucleus is described as a blob of nuclear matter with properties based upon its number of nucleons. This infers that a single potential can describe the interaction of particles with different energies with different nuclei.

Research Organization:
Idaho State Univ., Pocatello, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP)
Contributing Organization:
Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States); Idaho National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States); Univ. of Kentucky (United States); Univ. of Utah (United States); US Naval Academy (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-05ID14517
OSTI ID:
1203238
Report Number(s):
DOE/NEUP-09-829; 09-829; TRN: US1500359
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English