Comparison of high energy neutron-nucleus total cross sections with theory

Abstract

A recent paper by Julius purports to show that previous estimates of the effect of inelastic screening on neutron-nucleus total cross sections are much too large. However, we show that most of this discrepancy is due to his uections for diffractive N* production which are much too small. The rest may be due to the assumptions in his model. We also emphasize that experimental support for the inelastic screening corrections does not rely on a specific choice of nuclear radii.