Abstract

Differential cross sections were measured for the elastic scattering of 34.4 MeV deutrons from 18 nuclei in the A = 12–96 region. An optical model analysis of the data was made both with and without a vector spin-orbit term in the potential. Including the spin-orbit term resulted in essentially no improvement of the fits for 12C and 16O in the angular range studies. For the heavier targets, however, the spin-orbit potential did improve the quality of the fits. From “best-fit” parameters for each nucleus, an “average” family was obtained as a function of Z and A. Comparison of the data with predictions using the average parameters gave generally satisfactory results.

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