In the light of the recent discovery that different forms of the S matrix produce equally good fits to heavy-ion scattering data, we use the simple Ericson parametrization of the phase shifts to analyze the experimental data and apply the Glauber approximation to evaluate the corresponding optical potential. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

• Received 19 September 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.53.2973