Elastic scattering a hundred years on; what can it tell us?

Elastic scattering is often dismissed as trivial to measure and uninteresting to analyse. In fact, it is neither, as this contribution hopes to show. Provided care is taken to make precise measurements and the target carefully selected the nuclear structure of the projectile can - and does in a prof...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2012-01, Vol.381 (1), p.12087-6
Main Author: Keeley, N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Elastic scattering
Nuclear structure
Physics
Projectiles
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Summary:Elastic scattering is often dismissed as trivial to measure and uninteresting to analyse. In fact, it is neither, as this contribution hopes to show. Provided care is taken to make precise measurements and the target carefully selected the nuclear structure of the projectile can - and does in a profound way in many cases - influence the near-barrier elastic scattering through strong channel-coupling effects.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/381/1/012087