Upgrade to Ouroboros+Eli Lagrangian Motivated By Long-Range Nuclear Force Data, With Best Overall Fit

The Ouroboros+Eli framework posits a continuous, non-local chaoiton field as a candidate for dark matter and a source of long-range nuclear interactions. Initial formulations of this framework assumed a coherent (mass-number squared) coupling to nuclei. However, emerging empirical evidence from multiple independent datasets suggests that the interaction is instead nucleon-specific, scaling linearly with mass number (). This report presents a systematic re-evaluation of the Ouroboros+Eli Lagrangian, incorporating an -linear coupling term. We test this refined model against six independent empirical domains: (1) the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation, (2) thermal neutron scattering cross-sections for H-1 and D-2, (3) A-scaling of long-range nuclear amplitudes, (4) NIF yield residuals, (5) the historical Sawada neutron scattering anomaly, and (6) global constraints from LUX/Xenon1T. In all six cases, the -linear model provides statistically acceptable fits, outperforming the coherent model where a direct comparison is possible. Crucially, the -linear model resolves the long-standing Sawada anomaly with a single correction parameter (), which the model cannot account for. We conclude that the Ouroboros+Eli Lagrangian should be refined to include an explicit A-linear nucleon-specific coupling term. This refinement is statistically plausible and provides a consistent interpretation of the J field as interacting with individual nucleons, though a physical mechanism for incoherent scattering remains to be fully specified.