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The in-medium $NNrightarrow NDelta$ cross section and its differential cross section in isospin asymmetric nuclear medium are investigated in the framework of the one-boson exchange model by including the isovector mesons, i.e., $delta$ and $rho$ mesons. Our results show that the in-medium $NNrightarrow NDelta$ cross sections are suppressed with density increasing, and the differential cross sections become isotropic with the density increasing at the beam energy around the $Delta$ threshold energy. The isospin splitting on the medium correction factor, $R=sigma_{ NNrightarrow NDelta}^*/sigma_{NNrightarrow NDelta}^{text{free}}$ is observed for different channels of $NNto NDelta$, especially around the threshold energy for all the effective Lagrangian parameters. By analyzing the selected effective Lagrangian parameters, our results show that the larger effective mass is, the weaker medium correction $R$ is.
In this paper, the in-medium $NNrightarrow NDelta$ cross section is calculated in the framework of the one-boson exchange model by including the isovector mesons, i.e. $delta$ and $rho$ mesons. Due to the isospin exchange in the $NNrightarrow NDelta$ process, the vector self-energies of the outgoing particles are modified relative to the incoming particles in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter, and it leads to the effective energies of the incoming $NN$ pair being different from the outgoing $NDelta$ pair. This effect is investigated in the calculation of the in-medium $NNrightarrow NDelta$ cross section. With the corrected energy conservation, the cross sections of the $Delta^{++}$ and $Delta^+$ channels are suppressed, and the cross sections of the $Delta^0$ and $Delta^-$ channels are enhanced relative to the results obtained without properly considering the potential energy changes. Our results further confirm the dependence of medium correction factor, $R=sigma_{ NNrightarrow NDelta}^*/sigma_{NNrightarrow NDelta}^{text{free}}$, on the charge state of $NNrightarrow NDelta$ especially around the threshold energy, but the isospin splitting of medium correction factor $R$ becomes weak at high beam energies.
Within the one boson exchange model, $Delta$-mass dependent M-matrix and its influence on the calculation of $NDelta to NN$ cross sections are investigated. Our calculations show that the $m_{Delta}$ dependence of $|textbf{p}_{NDelta}|$ and $|mathcal{M}|^2$ has effects on the calculations of $sigma_{NDeltato NN}$, especially around the threshold energy. We finally provide a table of accurate $sigma_{NDeltato NN}$ which can be used in the transport models.
This paper presents measurements of production cross sections and inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: 60 GeV/$c$ protons with C, Be, Al targets and 120 GeV/$c$ protons with C and Be targets. The analysis was performed using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. First measurements were obtained using protons at 120 GeV/$c$, while the results for protons at 60 GeV/$c$ were compared with previously published measurements. These interaction cross section measurements are critical inputs for neutrino flux prediction in current and future accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments.
The density and temperature dependence of the nuclear symmetry free energy is investigated using microscopic two- and three-body nuclear potentials constructed from chiral effective field theory. The nuclear force models and many-body methods are benchmarked to properties of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter in the vicinity of the saturation density as well as the virial expansion of the neutron matter equation of state at low fugacities. The free energy per particle of isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated assuming a quadratic dependence of the interaction contributions on the isospin asymmetry. The spinodal instability at subnuclear densities is examined in detail.
Using the isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics model, we study the effect of charge asymmetry and isospin dependent cross-section on nuclear stopping and multiplicity of free nucleons and LMFs. Simulations were carried out for the reactions $^{124}X_{m}+^{124}X_{m}$, where m varies from 47 to 59 and for $^{40}Y_{n}+^{40}Y_{n}$, where n varies from 14 to 23. Our study shows that nuclear stopping as well as the production of LMFs depend strongly on the isospin of the cross-section.