Cluster folding analysis for the 6,7Li and 20Ne + 24Mg nuclear systems

TL;DR

This paper reanalyzes elastic scattering angular distributions of 6,7Li and 20Ne ions on 24Mg using cluster folding models, highlighting cluster structures and comparing phenomenological and microscopic potentials.

Contribution

It introduces a cluster folding analysis framework for these nuclear systems, emphasizing cluster structures and providing a comparative approach with different nuclear potentials.

Findings

Reproduced experimental angular distributions accurately.

Identified cluster structures in 6Li, 7Li, and 20Ne.

Highlighted the effectiveness of the cluster folding model.

Abstract

The experimentally available angular distributions (ADs) for 6,7Li and 20Ne ions elastically scattered from a 24Mg target are reanalyzed using various nuclear potentials based on phenomenological and microscopic approaches. The ADs for the 6Li + 24Mg system at energies Elab = 20, 88, and 240 MeV are considered, as are the ADs for the 7Li + 24Mg system at Elab = 20, 34, and 88 MeV, and the ADs for the 20Ne + 24Mg systems at Elab = 50, 60, 80, 90, and 100 MeV. Special emphasis is placed on the (d + {\alpha}) and (t + {\alpha}) cluster structures of 6Li and 7Li weakly bound projectiles, which appear at relatively low energies of 1.4737 and 2.468 MeV, respectively. Furthermore, the 20Ne stable nucleus is a candidate to reveal the {\alpha} + 16O cluster structure at an energy of 4.73 MeV. These systems are analyzed within the framework of the cluster folding model by taking into consideration the aforementioned cluster nature of the (6Li, 7Li, and 20Ne) projectiles. The adopted approaches fairly reproduced the experimental ADs.