Spin-Orbit Interaction Induced by Heavy-Ion Projectile Excitation

H. Nishioka; R. C. Johnson; J. A. Tostevin; K. -I. Kubo

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1795

Spin-Orbit Interaction Induced by Heavy-Ion Projectile Excitation

H. Nishioka, R. C. Johnson, J. A. Tostevin, and K. -I. Kubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1795 – Published 28 June 1982

Abstract

It is shown that, for heavy-ion projectiles with a cluster structure, effects due to projectile excitation generate a large effective spin-orbit interaction which can drastically alter the predictions for vector analyzing powers obtained from folding model spin-orbit potentials. Coupled-channels calculations of this effect for ${}^{6}{Li}$ and ${}^{7}{Li}$ scattering from ${}^{58}{Ni}$ at $E_{c . m .} \sim 20$ MeV give a good account of experimental data.

Received 30 November 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1795

Authors & Affiliations

H. Nishioka, R. C. Johnson, and J. A. Tostevin

Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England

K. -I. Kubo^*

Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England, and Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158, Japan