optical model
Nuclear Physics
noun
A model of the atomic nucleus in which it is treated as having a potential well with an additional negative imaginary component, so that its behaviour with respect to incident particles is somewhat analogous to that of a partially absorbing body with respect to incident light waves.
Origin
1950s.
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