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The optical model description of the scattering of a his model the many- body problem arising from the- interactions of the nucleons in the target nucleus with the incident particle is approximated by a two-body problem. The various interations are replaced by a potential between the incident particle and the nucleus. (W.D.M.)
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Herman Feshbach (1958) studied this question.
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