Single folding potential calculations in 127I

Abstract In this study, an optical-model-based elastic scattering (n, el) reaction was investigated, in which a neutron was used as the projectile. The nucleon densities of the ^127I were calculated and applied in the single folding method to obtain interaction potential for the neutron-^127I reaction as a function of projectile energy. The Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach was used with the Woods-Saxon potential to calculate nucleon densities by means of the HARTREE-FOCK code. These densities were then used in the Single-Folding model to calculate neutron-^127I interaction potentials for neutron incident energies of 0. 8893 MeV, 2 MeV, and 16. 1 MeV. The angular differential cross sections were obtained using TALYS code, with these interaction potentials as input parameters. The evaluated nucleon-nucleus interaction potentials were found to be consistent with other theoretical values reported in the literature. The angular differential cross-section values also showed good agreement with experimental results available in the EXFOR library.