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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
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Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Hamza Ayoub Abdessabour, Beladel Brahim, Sadallah Brahim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 7 | July 2025 | Pages 1062-1072
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2439680
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This paper presents an analytical formula for the neutron scattering cross section on even-even heavy nuclei using the rotational model and some assumptions as a Yukawa potential shape for neutron-nucleon interaction, rigid rotor approximation, and nuclear matter uniformly distributed within the nuclear matter. The most important characteristic in this study is the avoidance of any approximation of central potential, opposed to what usually happens: the expansion of the potential according to the power of β2, over the Legendre polynomial basis or within Fourier-Bessel analysis. Satisfying and encouraging results have been acquired despite the simplicity of the chosen model (rigid rotor model and the two-parameter potential).