Faddeev and Glauber Calculations at Intermediate Energies in a Model for n+d Scattering

Understand

Obtaining cross sections for nuclear reactions at intermediate energies based on the Glauber formulation has a long tradition.

• Only recently the energy regime of a few hundred MeV has become accessible to ab-initio Faddeev calculations of three-body scattering.
• In order to go to higher energies, the Faddeev equation for three-body scattering is formulated and directly solved without employing a partial wave decomposition.
• In the simplest form the Faddeev equation for interacting scalar particles is a three-dimensional integral equation in five variables, from which the total cross section, the cross sections for elastic scattering and breakup reactions, as well as differential cross sections are obtained.