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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 257, Issue 3, 9 February 1976, Pages 378-388
Nuclear Physics A

Natural boundary condition methods for nuclear reactions

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Abstract

Two methods for calculating cross sections are discussed. Method I is that due to Barrett and Delsanto; method II is the R-matrix method with energy-dependent basis states. Both methods are characterized by their use of natural boundary conditions at the surfaces separating internal and external regions of configuration space. The methods are compared with both standard and generalized R-matrix calculations with energy-independent basis states for the reaction 12C(n,n)12C at incident energies below the inelastic threshold using a weak vibrational model. The convergence of the natural boundary condition methods was found to be substantially better than for the other cases.

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