Reanalysis of 20Ne + 24Mg elastic scattering angular distributions within various interaction potentials

Abstract

The angular distributions (ADs) for ²⁰Ne elastically scattered from a ²⁴Mg target were measured experimentally many years ago at E_lab = 50–100 MeV. Unfortunately, these data received little attention and were analyzed only from a phenomenological perspective at that time. This work is essentially devoted to investigating these data from a microscopic point of view, with a special interest given to the probable α + ¹⁶O cluster structure of the ²⁰Ne nucleus. The considered data are fairly well reproduced by the various implemented potentials. The study demonstrated the success of the proposed α + ¹⁶O cluster model of the ²⁰Ne nucleus in reproducing the considered ²⁰Ne + ²⁴Mg ADs over a wide range of energies.