We have recently constructed two very successful
n
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Be optical potentials (Bonaccorso and Charity in Phys Rev C89:024619,
2014
). One by the Dispersive Optical Model (DOM) method and the other (AB) fully phenomenological. The two potentials have strong surface terms in common for both the real and the imaginary parts. This feature makes them particularly suitable to build a single-folded (light-) nucleus-
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Be optical potential by using ab-initio projectile densities such as those obtained with the VMC method (Wiringa
http://www.phy.anl.gov/theory/research/density/
). On the other hand, a VMC density together with experimental nucleon–nucleon cross-sections can be used also to obtain a neutron and/or proton-
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Be imaginary folding potential. We will use here an ab-initio VMC density (Wiringa
http://www.phy.anl.gov/theor...

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