B. V. Carlson

Toward a global description of the nucleus-nucleus interaction

Extensive systematizations of theoretical and experimental nuclear densities and of optical potential strengths extracted from heavy-ion elastic scattering data analyses at low and intermediate energies are presented. The energy dependence of the nuclear potential is accounted for within a model based on the nonlocal nature of the interaction. The systematics indicates that the heavy-ion nuclear potential can be described in a simple global way through a double-folding shape, which basically depends only on the density of nucleons of the partners in the collision. The possibility of extracting information about the nucleon-nucleon interaction from the heavy-ion potential is investigated.

Relativistic Mean-Field Hadronic Models under Nuclear Matter Constraints

Relativistic mean-field (RMF) models have been widely used in the study of many hadronic frameworks because of several important aspects not always present in nonrelativistic models, such as intrinsic Lorentz covariance, automatic inclusion of spin, appropriate saturation mechanism for nuclear matter, causality and, therefore, no problems related to superluminal speed of sound. With the aim of identifying the models which best satisfy well known properties of nuclear matter, we have analyzed

Light front Bethe-Salpeter equation

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Effect of the 18O nuclear density on the nuclear potentials of the 18O+58,60Ni systems

parameterizations of seven different types of RMF models under three different sets of constraints related to symmetric nuclear matter, pure neutron matter, symmetry energy, and its derivatives. One of these (SET1) is formed of the same constraints used in a recent work [M. Dutra et al., Phys. Rev. C 85, 035201 (2012)] in which we analyzed

The heavy-ion nuclear potential: determination of a systematic behavior at the region of surface interaction distances

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Light-front time picture of few-body systems

Skyrme parameterizations. The results pointed to

Quark structure of the nucleon and quantum hadrodynamics

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Statistical multifragmentation model with discretized energy and the generalized Fermi breakup: Formulation of the model

models consistent with all constraints. By using another set of constraints, namely, SET2a, formed by the updated versions of the previous one, we found

Anharmonicities of giant dipole excitations

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Inclusive breakup of three-fragment weakly bound nuclei

models approved simultaneously. Finally, in the third set, named SET2b, in which the values of the constraints are more restrictive, we found