A non-conventional approach to calculating reactions in quantum mechanics is presented. Reaction observables are obtained with bound state calculation techniques. The accuracy of the method to calculate few-nucleon response functions is discussed.
The method of integral transforms is reviewed. In the framework of this method reaction observables are obtained with the bound--state calculation techniques. New developments are reported.
Various electromagnetic few-body break-up reactions into the many-body continuum are calculated microscopically with the Lorentz integral transform (LIT) method. For three- and four-body nuclei the nuclear Hamiltonian includes two- and three- nucleon forces, while semirealistic interactions are used in case of six- and seven-body systems. Comparisons with experimental data are discussed. In addition various interesting aspects of the $^4$He photodisintegration are studied: investigation of a tetrahedrical symmetry of $^4$He and a test of non-local nuclear force models via the induced two-body currents.
The accuracy of reconstruction of a response function from its Lorentz integral transform is studied in an exactly solvable model. An inversion procedure is elaborated in detail and features of the procedure are studied. Unlike results in the literature pertaining to the same model, the response function is reconstructed from its Lorentz integral transform with rather high accuracy.
A current interest in nuclear reactions, specifically with rare isotopes concentrates on their reaction with neutrons, in particular neutron capture. In order to facilitate reactions with neutrons one must use indirect methods using deuterons as beam or target of choice. For adding neutrons, the most common reaction is the (d,p) reaction, in which the deuteron breaks up and the neutron is captured by the nucleus. Those (d,p) reactions may be viewed as a three-body problem in a many-body context. This contribution reports on a feasibility study for describing phenomenological nucleon-nucleus optical potentials in momentum space in a separable form, so that they may be used for Faddeev calculations of (d,p) reactions.
A procedure to solve few-body problems which is based on an expansion over a small parameter is developed. The parameter is the ratio of potential energy to kinetic energy in the subspace of states having not small hyperspherical quantum numbers, K>K_0. Dynamic equations are reduced perturbatively to those in the finite subspace with K le K_0. The contribution from the subspace with K>K_0 is taken into account in a closed form, i.e. without an expansion over basis functions.