Nucleus-Informed Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction from a Dispersive Optical Model

The dispersive optical model (DOM) links both scattering and bound-state experimental data through a dispersion relation which allows for fully-consistent, data-informed predictions for nuclei where such data exists. I will present investigations of proton knockout reactions from both ⁴⁰Ca and ⁴⁸Ca in a distorted-wave impulse approximation (DWIA) utilizing the DOM for a fully-consistent description. Comparing both electron-induced and proton-induced knockout reveals a discrepancy in the proton-induced reaction calculation. Since the main difference in the proton-induced case is the use of an effective proton-proton interaction, I will present a nucleus-informed proton-proton interaction to improve the reaction description of proton-induced knockout.