We present a new global optical potential (GOP) for nucleus-nucleus systems, including neutron-rich and proton-rich isotopes, in the energy range of 50–400 MeV/u. The GOP is derived from the microscopic folding model with the complex $G$-matrix interaction CEG07 and the global density presented by the São Paulo group. The folding model accounts for realistic complex optical potentials of nucleus-nucleus systems well and reproduces the existing elastic scattering data for stable heavy-ion projectiles at incident energies above 50 MeV/u. We then calculate the folding-model potentials (FMPs) for projectiles of even-even isotopes, ${}^{8-22}$C, ${}^{12-24}$O, ${}^{16-38}$Ne, ${}^{20-40}$Mg, ${}^{22-48}$Si, ${}^{26-52}$S, ${}^{30-62}$Ar, and ${}^{34-70}$Ca, scattered by stable target nuclei of ${}^{12}$C, ${}^{16}$O, ${}^{28}$Si, ${}^{40}$Ca ${}^{58}$Ni, ${}^{90}$Zr, ${}^{120}$Sn, and ${}^{208}$Pb at incident energies of 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, 250, 300, 350, and 400 MeV/u. The calculated FMP is represented, with a sufficient accuracy, by a linear combination of 10-range Gaussian functions. The expansion coefficients depend on the incident energy, the projectile and target mass numbers, and the projectile atomic number, while the range parameters depend only on the projectile and target mass numbers. The adequate mass region of the present GOP by the global density is inspected in comparison with FMP by realistic density. The full set of the range parameters and the coefficients for all the projectile-target combinations at each incident energy are provided on a permanent open-access website together with a fortran program for calculating the microscopic-basis GOP (MGOP) for a desired projectile nucleus by the spline interpolation over the incident energy and the target mass number.

• Received 9 February 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.85.044607