Extreme Damping of Single-Particle Wave Functions in the Nuclear Interior

Abstract

Single-particle wave functions which describe the elastic scattering of low-energy neutrons have been calculated from nonlocal optical potentials constructed in terms of the fundamental nucleon-nucleon interaction and the ground-state wave function of the target. It has been found that these single-particle wave functions are greatly reduced in the nuclear interior in comparison with those generated from equivalent phenomological local and nonlocal optical potentials.