COMPARATIVE-STUDY OF THE SCATTERING OF LIGHT HEAVY-IONS USING A FOLDING MODEL

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 for 6Li and 9Be. 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 for 18O because of uncertainties over the neutron distribution in this nucleus. © 1979.