A comparative study of the scattering of light heavy ions using a folding model

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(79)90292-6

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 329, Issues 1–2, 8–15 October 1979, Pages 233-258

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Abstract

Folding-model optical potentials were constructed for the elastic scattering of light heavy ions. Particular care was taken to use realistic density distributions which incorporate centre-of-mass recoil, shell effects, variations in binding energies and fragmentation of single-particle strengths. Comparisons were made with many sets of experimental data. No large discrepancies were found like those reported earlier for⁶Li and⁹Be. The predicted potentials were found to be in agreement with experiment with a mean deviation of less than 10 %. The consistency of the results also supports the validity of the density distributions used. Some uncertainty occurs for¹⁸O because of uncertainties over the neutron distribution in this nucleus.

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A comparative study of the scattering of light heavy ions using a folding model

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