Quasi-elastic scattering and fusion with a modified Woods-Saxon potential

Abstract

The elastic and large-angle quasi-elastic scattering reactions were studied with the same nucleus-nucleus potential proposed for describing fusion reactions. The elastic scattering angle distributions of some reactions are reasonably well reproduced by the proposed Woods-Saxon potential with fixed parameters at energies much higher than the Coulomb barrier. With an empirical barrier distribution based on the modified Woods-Saxon potential and taking into account the influence of nucleon transfer, the calculated quasi-elastic scattering cross sections of a series of reactions are in good agreement with the experimental data.