Introduction.- Fundamental Considerations.- Facets of Nuclear Structure.- Facets of Nuclear Reactions.- NA Scattering theory at intermediate energy.- NA Scattering theory at low energy.- Electron scattering.- Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering Theory.- Results for light nuclei to be discussed.- Results for exotic nuclei.- New Physics.- Concluding remarks.
This book highlights a major advance in low-energy scattering theory: the Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering (MCAS) theory, which represents an attempt to unify structure and reaction theory. It solves the Lippmann–Schwinger equations for low-energy nucleon-nucleus and alpha-nucleus scattering in momentum space, allowing both the bound and scattering states in the compound nucleus formed to be described. Results of various cases are presented and discussed.