Abstract
Angular distributions of the elastic and inelastic deuteron-nucleus scattering off Mg24, Si28, Ni58, Zr90, Sn116, and Pb208 have been measured at a beam energy of 98 MeV/nucleon, with the goal of constraining the deuteron optical potential in this kinematical regime and to extract the reduced transition probabilities for the ground-state transitions to low-lying excited states of these nuclei. Two potential models were used in the analysis of the measured (d,d) and (d,d′) data within the optical model and the distorted-wave Born approximation: the phenomenological optical model potential associated with the collective model of nuclear scattering, and the semimicroscopic double-folding model of the deuteron-nucleus potential based on a realistic density-dependent M3Y interaction. The deuteron optical potential and inelastic (d,d′) scattering form factors were calculated using these two potential models, allowing for a direct comparison between the potential models as well as the validation of the deduced Eλ transition rates.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 044314 |
| Journal | Physical Review C |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Oct 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We acknowledge the efforts of the RCNP staff in providing high-quality deuteron beams required for these measurements, and thank A. Okamoto (Konan), T. Sako (Kyoto), and K. Schlax (Notre Dame) for their assistance with the experiment. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Grants No. PHY-1068192, No. PHY-2011890, and No. PHY-2310059). Two of us (D.C.C. and D.T.K.) were supported by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED Project No. 103.04-2021.74).