https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00311-9
Regular Article – Theoretical Physics
Unified description of the coupled-channels and statistical Hauser-Feshbach nuclear reaction theories for low energy neutron incident reactions
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Received:
26
September
2020
Accepted:
19
November
2020
Published online:
8
January
2021
We incorporate the coupled-channels optical model into the statistical Hauser-Feshbach nuclear reaction theory, where the scattering matrix is diagonalized by performing the Engelbrecht-Weidenmüller transformation. This technique has been implemented in the coupled-channels optical model code ECIS by J. Raynal, and we extend this method so that all the open channels in a nucleon-induced reaction on a deformed nucleus can be calculated consistently.
This article belongs to the Special Issue on: “Nuclear Reaction Studies: a Tribute to Jacques Raynal”.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021
