Abstract
The equation of state for cold nuclear matter is determined by the effective, density-dependent interaction between bound nucleons at temperatureT = 0. This interaction can be probed in elastic nucleus-nucleus collisions at various density overlaps which may extend to several times the normal matter density. For this purpose the elastic scattering of16O ions on16O has been measured at incident energies from 250 to 1120 MeV with high accuracy. From these data, which sample both diffractive and refractive scattering processes, we extract the underlying scattering potentials utilizing model-unrestricted analysis methods. These potentials fit very well into the systematics found in light-ion scattering and compare very favorably with microscopic calculations, if these are based on a weak density dependence of the effective NN interaction, resulting in a soft equation of state for cold nuclear matter.
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