Color transparency CT depends on the formation of a wavepacket of small spatial extent. It is useful to interpret experimental searches for CT with a multiple scattering scattering series based on wavepacket-nucleon scattering instead of the standard one using nucleon-nucleon scattering. We develop several new techniques which are valid for differing ranges of energy. These techniques are appli...

Based on the spectator expansion of multiple scattering series we employ a chiral next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) nucleon-nucleon interaction same footing in structure as well reaction calculation to obtain an leading-order consistent effective potential for nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering, which includes spin struck target nucleon. As example present proton off $^{12}$C.

We present a new chiral expansion scheme for the nucleon-nucleon scattering amplitude which preserves unitarity exactly. Our effective field theory builds on the power counting rules for 2-nucleon reducible diagrams proposed in [1]. We evaluate the leading order terms of the isospin one scattering amplitude and elaborate in detail on the S0 phase shift. Our chiral description of the S0phase shi...

Nucleon-nucleon scattering is studied to next-to-leading order in a partially-quenched extension of an effective field theory used to describe multinucleon systems in QCD. The partially-quenched nucleon-nucleon amplitudes will play an important role in relating lattice simulations of the two-nucleon sector to nature.

The sensitivity of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering to the off-shell behavior of realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions is investigated when on-shell equivalent nucleon-nucleon potentials are used. The study is based on applications of the full-folding optical model potential for an explicit treatment of the off-shell behavior of the nucleon-nucleon effective interaction. Applications were ma...