The study of the refractive scattering of 6Li and 6He on carbon target with the S-matrix approach

In this paper, the S-matrix parametrization is adopted to analyze the refractive scattering of [Formula: see text] at intermediate energies systematically and that of [Formula: see text] at 230 MeV. For [Formula: see text], the experimental data containing the Fraunhofer oscillations and the rainbow falloff are reproduced very well by adjusting parameters. The S-matrix parameters and the rainbow angles show evident tendencies as the bombarding energy increases, which are comparable with those of [Formula: see text] elastic scattering on carbon target. For [Formula: see text], the experimental data in the forward direction are reproduced successfully by slightly adjusting the parameters used in the calculation of [Formula: see text] at 210 MeV. The calculated results show that the [Formula: see text] scattering exhibits a comparable transparency with that of [Formula: see text] at intermediate energies.

Light Cluster Production in Central Symmetric Heavy-Ion Reactions from Fermi to Gev Energies

Correlations and clustering are of great importance in the study of the Nuclear Equation of State. Information on these items/aspects can be obtained using heavy-ion reactions which are described by dynamical theories. We propose a dataset that will be useful for improving the description of light cluster production in transport model approaches. The dataset combines published and new data and is presented in a form that allows direct comparison of the experiment with theoretical predictions. The dataset is ranging in bombarding energy from 32 to 1930 A MeV. In constructing this dataset, we put in evidence the existence of a change in the light cluster production mechanism that corresponds to a peak in deuteron production.

Study of the threshold anomaly effect in the reaction $$^{7}$$Li+$$^{208}$$Pb at energies around the Coulomb barrier

The elastic scattering in the reaction $$^{7}$$ 7 Li+$$^{208}$$ 208 Pb was investigated in the bombarding energy range from 25 to 39 MeV. The real and imaginary parts of the optical potential were analyzed by using a phenomenological potential. A dispersion relation analysis is presented in order to investigate the threshold anomaly effect. It is concluded that $$^{7}$$ 7 Li has an intermediate behavior between the tightly bound nuclei such as $$^{16}$$ 16 O and the loosely bound nuclei such as $$^{6}$$ 6 Li where the lack of the threshold anomaly is unambiguously observed. Reaction cross sections are also extracted from the elastic scattering data and its comparison with the ones of other systems has been performed to draw hints on the effect of the breakup channel.

Analysis of 6Li+16O elastic scattering using different potentials

Available experimental angular distributions for 6Li elastically scattered from 16O nucleus in the energy range 13.0–50.0 MeV are reanalyzed within the framework of optical potential, double folding optical potential as well as cluster folding potential. Special interest was paid to the cluster folding based on the well-known cluster structure of 6Li. Elastic scattering data for 6Li+16O system plotted as a function of momentum transfer showed that the real Coulomb nuclear interference region independent of the bombarding energy. This structural behavior for the data could be used to define the interaction potential with some certainty and to extract reliable values for the renormalization factors.

Decay of 160Er* in 16O + 144Nd and 64Ni + 96Zr Fusion Reactions

The population of evaporation residue entry states in the decay of the compound nucleus 160Er*(54 MeV) is investigated in a cross-bombardment employing the reactions 160 + 144Nd and 64Ni + 96Zr. Evaporation residue cross sections and entry state 7-ray fold distributions of the dominant exit channels were obtained for each reaction, using a 4π 7-ray detection system. An entrance-channel dependence of the 7-ray fold distributions of the xn products is observed. This effect is described successfully by the statistical model making use of compound nucleus angular momentum distributions obtained with a fusion model that provides a good description of the bombarding energy dependence of fusion data for both reactions. In accordance with recent findings on the decay of 164Yb*, it is suggested that the observed differences in the population of the dominant exit channels originate from the primary spin distributions rather than a possible dependence of the compound nucleus decay on the formation mode.

Peculiarities of 6Li +12C elastic scattering

Using the phenomenological optical potential and two different semi-microscopic potentials, namely double folding and cluster folding (CF), the available experimental data for 6Li elastically scattered from [Formula: see text]C nucleus at energies 50–600[Formula: see text]MeV are reanalyzed. On the basis of the well-known cluster structure of 6Li as a composite nucleus consisting of a core “alpha” with a valence particle “deuteron” orbiting this core, special attention was paid to the CF potential. Elastic scattering data for 6Li+[Formula: see text]C system plotted as a function of momentum transfer showed that the real Coulomb nuclear interference region is independent of the bombarding energy. The aforementioned structural behavior for the data could be used to define the potential with some certainty. In addition to a Woods–Saxon imaginary potential of fixed radius, the real part of the potential derived from the cluster structure of 6Li was successful in reproducing the experimental data in the whole angular range. Coupled channel (CC) calculation effects are also performed by coupling to 6Li resonant state ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]MeV).

New investigations on the 32S(3He,d)33Cl reaction at 9.6 MeV bombarding energy

The 32S(3He,d)33Cl one-proton transfer reaction is a powerful tool to investigate the spectroscopy of low-lying states in the proton-rich 33Cl nucleus. However, the extraction of firm differential cross-section data at various angles to benchmark and constrain theoretical models is made challenging by the presence of competitive reactions on target contaminants. In this paper we report on arecent measurement using a new generation hodoscope of silicon detectors, capable to detect and identify emitted deuterons down to energies of the order of 2 MeV. The high angular segmentation of our hodoscope combined with a suitable target to control possible contaminants, allowed to unambiguously disentangle the contribution of various states in 33Cl, in particular the 2.352 MeV state lying just few tens of keV above the proton separation energy.

Spectroscopy of natural parity states in 20Ne via the 19F(p,α0) and 19F(p,απ)reactions at low energies

The 19F(p,α0)16O and 19F(p,απ)16O reactions can be fruitfully exploited to probe natural parity states above the proton emission threshold in the compound 20Ne nucleus. However, despite the relatively large number of data sets published in the literature, it is still not possible to draw a fully unambiguous picture of the spectroscopy of 20Ne, especially close to the proton emission threshold. To contribute to clarify these aspects, we have collected and reviewed all existing data sets of the 19F(p,α0)16O and 19F(p,απ)16O reactions to perform, for the first time, a comprehensive R-matrix fit including both reactions in the bombarding energy range Ep = 0:2–10 MeV. Our analysis clarifies several ambiguities present in the literature and affecting the spectroscopy of 20Ne and clearly demonstrates the importance of the 19F(p,απ) reaction to better constraint the spectroscopy parameters of the fit.