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We consider an effective potential model consisting of an electromagnetic part plus a nuclear part as the ground state interaction for an α–p system. The next few higher partial wave interactions are generated using the formalism of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. We adapt the phase function method to compute α–p elastic scattering phases up to 12 MeV, including the effect of the electromagnetic interaction quite rigorously in our phase shift calculation. With the further incorporation of some energy-dependent correction factors to our interactions, we obtain a good agreement with the experimental data.
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Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the authors; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 190, No. 1, pp. 78–86, January, 2017.
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Bhoi, J., Laha, U. Supersymmetry-inspired low-energy α–p elastic scattering phases. Theor Math Phys 190, 69–76 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577917010056
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