alpha nucleus optical potential in the double folding model

2001
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 63 (2001) 034007

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Abstract: (APS)
The double-folding formalism for the α-nucleus optical potential is revised to study the exchange effects and density dependence of the effective nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction in detail. A realistic density dependent M3Y interaction, based on the G-matrix elements of the Paris NN potential, has been used in the folding calculation. The local approximation for the nonlocal one-body density matrix in the calculation of the exchange potential was tested by using the harmonic oscillator representation of the nonlocal density matrices of the α-particle and target nucleus. The inclusion of a realistic density dependence into the effective NN interaction was shown to be vital for a correct description of the refractive α-nucleus scattering data. A high sensitivity of the density distributions of the α-particle and target nucleus to the shape of the α-nucleus potential was found, which can be used in the folding analysis to test various density models for the α-particle and target as well as to choose the most realistic approximation for the overlap density in the dinuclear system. Our results also stress the importance of α-nucleus scattering experiment in the nuclear structure study.