Abstract

Differential fast neutron elastic scattering angular distributions have been measured at 21.6 MeV for the natural elements Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Y, Ce, Pbr (radiogenic lead) and Bi by employing pulsed beam time-of-flight techniques. The energy resolution was about 0.5 MeV (FWHM) throughout the measurements. The experimental data have been analysed in terms of a standard phenomenological spherical optical model. Potential depths and geometrical parameters were determined from individual best fits to the data. Volume integrals of the real and imaginary parts of the potential were calculated using these parameters. A similar technique was utilized to calculate root mean square radii of the real potential, from which radii of point matter distributions were obtained for comparison with α-particle scattering data at 166 MeV and with charge distribution radii from electron scattering.Microscopic folding models for the optical potential according to Jeukenne, Lejeune and Mahaux, Brieva and Rook, and Yamaguchi et al. have been tested by calculating angular distributions, volume integrals and root mean square radii for the real and imaginary potential parts. The results of these calculations are compared with those of the phenomenological analyses. The microscopic potentials have also been intercompared by studying introduced normalizing parameters of the real and imaginary potential parts as well as isovector and isoscalar contributions to the volume integrals.

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