Neutron-Nucleus Total Elastic Scattering

Cvavb Chandra Raju^*

Department of Physics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2015.61004                

Abstract

Using an exact and complete Yukawa Potential Energy (YPE), the neutron-triton and neutron-helium elastic total scattering cross section is estimated and extrapolated to zero energy. The estimated value agrees pretty well with the experimental value and the procedure can be extended to any neutron-nucleus total scattering. The results are extended to the case of ⁴He, ⁷Li, ⁹Be and ²⁷Al nuclei also.

Keywords

Totalelastic Scattering Cross-Section, Complete Yukawa Potential Energy, Born Approximation, One Pion Exchange Potential

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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