Comment on analytical evaluation of the Coulomb distortion
Abstract
The simple treatment of Coulomb distortion in intermediate energy hadron-nucleus scattering developed in the analytic approximation of Amado, Dedonder, and Lenz is implemented. In three examples we compare the impact of the Coulomb distortion calculated with their analytic formula with that calculated by the standard numerical method. These calculations are compared with the data for 800 MeV p-208Pb and 291 MeV π+/--208Pb elastic scattering. We find that the analytic approximation accurately reproduces the effect of the Coulomb distortion as calculated numerically while illuminating the essentially simple physics involved. NUCLEAR REACTIONS Analytic approximation for Coulomb distortion in intermediate energy hadron-nucleus scattering. Example calculations for 800 MeV p-208Pb and 291 MeV π+/--208Pb elastic scattering.
- Publication:
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Physical Review C
- Pub Date:
- December 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevC.24.2754
- Bibcode:
- 1981PhRvC..24.2754I