Elastic scattering of a secondary 11Li beam on 28Si at 29 MeV/nucleon

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(93)90201-8

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 562, Issue 2, 20 September 1993, Pages 301-316

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Abstract

The elastic scattering of a secondary ¹¹Li beam (29 MeV/nucleon) on a ²⁸Si target has been measured for the first time. To compensate for the low intensity of the secondary beam, an efficient detecting system permitting one to obtain reliable experimental data has been used. An attempt has been made to reproduce the data in a phenomenological analysis and with coupled-channel calculations with a double-folding optical potential, with energy- and density-dependent effective interaction and realistic densities. In coupled-channel calculations with the folding optical potential a better description is achieved if a neutron halo of ¹¹Li is taken into account.

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¹: On leave of absence from the Inst. of Atomic Phys., P.O. Box MG6, Bucharest, Romania.

²: On leave of absence from the Inst. of Exp. Phys., Warsaw Univ., Hoza 69, PL-00-681, Poland.

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Elastic scattering of a secondary 11Li beam on 28Si at 29 MeV/nucleon

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Elastic scattering of a secondary ¹¹Li beam on ²⁸Si at 29 MeV/nucleon