Effective nucleon-nucleon forces and interaction of light exotic nuclei with stable nuclei at low energies

Abstract

The effect of the density dependence of effective nucleon-nucleon forces on the folded potential of the interactions of the light exotic nuclei 6He, 11Li, 11Be, and 8B with the stable nucleus 12C is studied, and the corresponding experimental data on the total reaction cross sections and on elastic scattering are analyzed. A semimicroscopic double-folding model featuring various density-dependent forces based on the M3Y interaction is used together with the nucleon densities as calculated within the density-functional method by using a unified set of parameters for all the above nuclei. It is shown that the angular distributions recently measured for elastic 6He scattering on 12C at an energy of 41.6 MeV per projectile nucleon and for elastic 11Be scattering on 12C at an energy of 49.3 MeV per projectile nucleon can be described satisfactorily if the real part of the optical folded potential is supplemented with a surface term mimicking the contribution of the dynamical polarization potential.