Elastic proton scattering off nonzero spin nuclei

In recent years, we constructed a microscopic optical potential (OP) for elastic nucleon-nucleus ($NA$) scattering using modern approaches based on chiral theories the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction. The OP was derived at first order of spectator expansion in Watson multiple theory and its final expression folding integral between $NN$ $t$ matrix nuclear density target. Two- three-body forces are consistently included both target projectile description. purpose this work is to apply our nuclei characterized by ground state spin-parity quantum numbers $J^\pi \ne 0^+$. We extended formalism include spin nucleus. full amplitudes reaction retained calculations starting from two- forces. show remarkable agreement with experimental data available observables and, simultaneously, provide reliable estimates theoretical uncertainties. This paves way toward approach inelastic $NA$ scattering, showing that derivation potentials states 0^+$ completely under control.