Refractive elastic scattering of carbon and oxygen nuclei The mean field analysis and Airy.pdfVIP

Refractive elastic scattering of carbon and oxygen nuclei: The mean field analysis and Airy structures a,b b a b b c d S. Szilner , M.P. Nicoli , Z. Basrak , R.M. Freeman , F. Haas , A. Morsad , M. E. Brandan , and G. R. Satchlere a Ruder Boˇskovi´c Institute, HR-10 002 Zagreb, Croatia bInstitut de Recherches Subatomiques, CNRS-IN2P3/ULP, Strasbourg, France c Facult´e des Sciences Ben M’Sik, Universit´e Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco d Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico, Mexico e University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 1 16 12 18 12 0 The experimental data on the O+ C and O+ C elastic scatterings and their optical model 0 analysis are presented. Detailed and complete elastic angular distributions have been measured at 2 the Strasbourg Vivitron accelerator at several energies covering the energy range between 5 and 10 MeV per nucleon. The elastic scattering angular distributions show the usual diffraction pattern and t c also, at larger angles, refractive effects in the form of nuclear rainbow and associated Airy structures. O The optical model analysis unambiguously shows the evolution of the refractive scattering pattern. The observed structure, namely the Airy minima, can be consistently described by a nucleus-nucleus 5 potential with