Elastic scattering of deuterons off carbon nuclei is studied in the Glauber model. Fits to the 650 MeV elastic scattering data are attempted using, firstly, nucleon-nucleon data as input and the $\alpha$-particle model of the carbon nucleus, and, secondly, deuteron-proton scattering data as input with both an independent particle and an $\alpha$-particle description of the carbon nucleus. In all these cases the best fits are qualitatively the same as those obtained in a recent calculation using nucleon-nucleon data as input with an independent particle model of the nucleus.

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ${}_{}{}^{12}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C}(d, d)$, $E=650\mathrm{}$ MeV; calculation of $\sigma (E, \theta )$, ${\sigma }_T\mathrm{}\left(E\right)\mathrm{}$, and comparison with experiment.

• Received 7 March 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.18.1781