The nucleon-nucleus optical potential (OP) is one of the essential ingredients in both direct and compound reaction calculations. Phenomenological parametrizations based on fits to elastic scattering data are widely used for many applications in astrophysics, basic nuclear science, and nuclear data. However, the explicit connection of the OP with the underlying nuclear structure has always...
This work presents the current state of a consistently developing dispersive Lane-consistent coupled channels optical model. The model considers the optical potential of a soft deformed target nucleus as an axially deformed potential with linear corrections corresponding to the softness and non-axiality of a nucleus [1]. A soft rotator model was used to calculate the "effective" deformations –...
Description of the deuteron-nucleus interaction is still a challenge for the basic research, while the accurate activation cross sections are highly requested by several on-going strategic research projects (ITER, IFMIF, SPIRAL-2). Actually, evaluation of the deuteron-induced activation data for IFMIF has pointed out a ratio of ~70 for the deuteron- and neutron-induced activities over the same...
