https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12280-x
Review
Phenomenological optical potentials
INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, via S. Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
* e-mail: dipietro@lns.infn.it
Received:
4
June
2018
Accepted:
20
August
2018
Published online:
5
October
2018
In this paper a “pedagogical” description of the scattering of two colliding nuclei is given. Some essential concepts are introduced, like the cross-section definition and the basic ingredients of scattering theory, which are preparatory for the discussion on the optical model. Phenomenological optical potentials are described, like the Woods-Saxon and the double-folding potential, highlighting their limits and the modifications that have been introduced in order to explain the new features that have emerged from experimental data with radioactive beams.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2018
