Elastic scattering of lithium byBe9,B10,C12,C13,O16, andSi28from 4 to 63 MeV

Abstract

Elastic scattering angular distributions have been measured at energies between 4.0 and 13.0 MeV for $^{6}\mathrm{Li}$ and $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ beams and targets of $^{10}\mathrm{B}$, $^{12}\mathrm{C}$, $^{13}\mathrm{C}$, $^{16}\mathrm{O}$, and $^{28}\mathrm{Si}$. Yield curves have been measured for energies from 3.0 to 13.0 MeV for $^{6}\mathrm{Li}$ beams and targets of $^{9}\mathrm{Be}$, $^{12}\mathrm{C}$, $^{13}\mathrm{C}$, $^{16}\mathrm{O}$, and $^{28}\mathrm{Si}$, and for $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ and $^{12}\mathrm{C}$. The angular distributions, supplemented by published angular distributions, have been fitted with optical-model potentials. For $^{6}\mathrm{Li}$ + $^{12}\mathrm{C}$, angular distributions were available at energies from 4.5 to 63.0 MeV. Potentials which gave fits to the data across the entire available energy range were obtained for each elastic scattering reaction. The usual ambiguities were observed in the optical-model potentials. In certain cases the back angles were not well fitted by parameter sets which were useful for all energies. The quality of the fits did not seem to be limited by experimental errors, which were generally better than 10% for our data; compound nucleus effects are presumed to be the cause of rapid energy variations in the angular distributions.NUCLEAR REACTIONS $^{10}\mathrm{B}$, $^{12}\mathrm{C}$, $^{13}\mathrm{C}$, $^{16}\mathrm{O}$, $^{28}\mathrm{Si}$($^{6}\mathrm{Li}$, $^{6}\mathrm{Li}$), $^{12}\mathrm{C}$, $^{13}\mathrm{C}$, $^{16}\mathrm{O}$ ($^{7}\mathrm{Li}$, $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$), $E=4\ensuremath{-}13$ MeV; measured $\ensuremath{\sigma}(\ensuremath{\theta})$. Optical-model potentials for $E=4\ensuremath{-}63$. MeV.