Threshold anomaly in the elastic scattering of the weakly bound projectile 7Li on the medium-mass target 116Sn

Abstract

Elastic scattering angular distributions using the weakly bound projectile 7Li on medium-mass target 116Sn were measured for 10 different beam energies from much below to above the Coulomb barrier. Optical model (OM) analysis was carried out using the famous double folding São Paulo Potential (SPP) to investigate the energy dependence of the interacting polarizing potentials. The absence of the usual Threshold Anomaly (TA) is observed. Thus this unusual behavior of the interacting potentials indicates the coupling of the breakup channels with the elastic ones. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.