Abstract
To explore the nature of the coupling effects on and elastic scattering at incident energies of and at MeV, respectively, coupled reaction channels (CRC) calculations were performed for the and pickup to the ground state of and the 5.960 MeV and 6.263 MeV doublet of excited states in at the corresponding incident energies. We show that within the CRC framework, the coupling effect on the elastic scattering is significant in both cases and produces effective absorption in the entrance channel. This suggests that the use of a fitted optical model potential may lead to too much absorption in the core plus proton interaction in extended coupled discretized continuum channels type of calculations for the system and that coupling to the pickup should be explicitly included in such studies.
- Received 5 November 2007
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.77.014605
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