Nucleus elastic scattering

Comparison of this value with the one obtained from electron-helium nucleus elastic scattering experiments [3] can define the limits of a possible muon-hadron anomalous interaction [4,5]. 

We show direct comparisons, some previously unpublished, between the predictions of the best available nonrelativistic and relativistic scattering models and the data. A number of specific proton-nucleus elastic scattering cases are considered, including p + O, Ca and Pb at incident proton laboratory energies of 200,500 and 800 MeV. Both relativistic and nonrelativistic approaches provide surprisingly similar and fairly good overall descriptions of the data. Finally, possible areas of further theoretical work in this field ate discussed. 

At the end of the 1970s proposals were made [G179] to measure a third, independent proton-nucleus elastic scattering observable, specifically the spin rotation parameter, which is referred to as 0. 

The projectile-nucleus elastic scattering amplitude may also be obtained by solving a one-body Schrodinger equation for the elastic channel using the optical potential where from eq. (2.21)... 

References for proton-nucleus elastic scattering data for targets O, "Ca and Pb. 

The final form of the nonrelativistic Watson optical potential for proton-nucleus elastic scattering is + (3-98)... 

Consider eq. (4.5), which determines the proton-nucleus elastic scattering t-matrix in terms of the relativistic optical potential. Evaluation of the physical pA scattering amplitude requires that positive energy matrix elements be calculated. The result is... 

Next we consider the problem of extracting model independent nuclear structure information from analyses of medium energy proton-nucleus elastic scattering data. Spedfically, we have in mind the ground state neutron density distributions. Studies of this type are plentiful in the literature and will not be reviewed here. The reader may refer to refs. [Ba 87, Ra79, Ra 81aj. 

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