Speaker
Dr
Juris P. Svenne
(University of Manitoba, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
Description
The Multi-Channel Algebraic-Scattering (MCAS) method, developed in 2003 for the analysis of low-energy nuclear spectra and of resonant scattering, continues to be effectively used for nuclear-structure studies. The MCAS approach allows the construction of the nucleon-core model Hamiltonian which can be defined in detail (coupling to the collective modes, rotational or vibrational, diverse components of the interaction operators, nonlocal effects due to Pauli exclusion). As reported at previous CAP congresses, MCAS analyses have given good descriptions of bound states and low-lying resonant spectra of medium-light nuclei, including nuclei well off the line of stability. This presentation deals with new directions for MCAS, specifically, moving to heavier target nuclei (mass A = 18-23) and new projectiles in the scattering process, recently, the α particle. New results will be shown for n+18O and p+18O, n+22Ne, and α scattering on targets from mass A=3 to A=16, the last of these yielding structure information for 20Ne.
Primary author
Dr
Juris P. Svenne
(University of Manitoba, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
Co-authors
Mr
Dirk van der Knijff
(School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)
Dr
Kenneth Amos
(School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)
Dr
Luciano Canton
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy)
Dr
Paul, R. Fraser
(ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia)
Dr
Steven Karataglidis
(Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524 Auckland Park, 2006, South Afric)
Prof.
Walter (Gualtiero) Pisent
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy)
