Eur. Phys. J. A (2021) 57: 87
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00405-y

Regular Article – Theoretical Physics

Towards a systematic optical model potential for A = 8 projectiles

¹ Department of Physics, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
² Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
³ Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 12.228-900 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

^b valdir.guimaraes@usp.br, valdirg@if.usp.br

Received: 23 December 2020
Accepted: 19 February 2021
Published online: 5 March 2021

Abstract

An optical model analysis of the available data for A = 8 (He, Li and B) projectiles on different targets with light, medium and heavy mass has been performed. A systematic potential set based on a Woods–Saxon Potential shape was obtained. This potential describes the elastic scattering angular distributions quite well. A more physical model within the framework of a semi-microscopic approach, where the nuclear matter density distributions of the B, Li and He projectiles have been calculated by using a microscopic self-consistent relativistic mean field (RMF) theory, was also considered. The agreement of the calculated angular distributions with the data was reasonable. An improvement of the agreement could be achieved by changing the imaginary diffuseness parameter, which is a sensitive parameter in these calculations.