STRONG ABSORPTION-MODEL AND ITS ASSOCIATED POTENTIAL

Using the example of C-12-Pb-208 elastic scattering at E(lab) = 1449 MeV it is shown that, at sufficiently high energies, a full quantum mechanical inversion of heavy-ion scattering data can be performed. Furthermore it is pointed out that the strong absorption model as parametrized by McIntyre, Wang, and Becker is associated with a potential having strong repulsion at the origin. That repulsion is a remnant of the built-in point Coulomb S matrix. Finally, a systematic study is presented to define the necessary accuracy of experiment required to extend the knowledge of the nucleus-nucleus interaction to smaller radii.