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Nuclear Force Imprints Revealed on the Elastic Scattering of Protons with C 10

  • A. Kumar*
  • , R. Kanungo
  • , A. Calci
  • , P. Navrátil
  • , A. Sanetullaev
  • , M. Alcorta
  • , V. Bildstein
  • , G. Christian
  • , B. Davids
  • , J. Dohet-Eraly
  • , J. Fallis
  • , A. T. Gallant
  • , G. Hackman
  • , B. Hadinia
  • , G. Hupin
  • , S. Ishimoto
  • , R. Krücken
  • , A. T. Laffoley
  • , J. Lighthall
  • , D. Miller
  • S. Quaglioni, J. S. Randhawa, E. T. Rand, A. Rojas, R. Roth, A. Shotter, J. Tanaka, I. Tanihata, C. Unsworth
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Saint Mary's University Halifax
  • TRIUMF
  • University of Guelph
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • University of British Columbia
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • University of Edinburgh
  • The University of Osaka

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Abstract

How does nature hold together protons and neutrons to form the wide variety of complex nuclei in the Universe? Describing many-nucleon systems from the fundamental theory of quantum chromodynamics has been the greatest challenge in answering this question. The chiral effective field theory description of the nuclear force now makes this possible but requires certain parameters that are not uniquely determined. Defining the nuclear force needs identification of observables sensitive to the different parametrizations. From a measurement of proton elastic scattering on C10 at TRIUMF and ab initio nuclear reaction calculations, we show that the shape and magnitude of the measured differential cross section is strongly sensitive to the nuclear force prescription.

Original languageEnglish
Article number262502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume118
Issue number26
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Jun 2017

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