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The reflection coefficients for various heavy ion potentials are calculated in an approximation which includes a wave mechanical surface reflection term in addition to the semiclassical WKB-term. For potentials which are deep and strongly absorbing in the interior of the potential well reflection from the surface gives the dominant contribution to the reflection coefficients with small angular momenta. For shallow potentials these two terms are still not sufficient for the calculation of the reflection coefficients, indicating that higher order reflections are important.
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The author wishes to thank Dr. G. Baur for many illuminating discussions and for his advice in performing the numerical calculations. He also wishes to express his gratitude to Prof. H.A. Weidenmüller for clarifying discussions and for critically reading the manuscript.
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Gelbke, C.K. Surface reflection properties of heavy ion optical potentials. Z. Physik 271, 399–407 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02126195
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