https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01220-3
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Scattering of 
B ions on 
B nuclei at an energy of 41.3 MeV
1
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
3
Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
4
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
5
Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
6
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
7
Physics Department, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
Received:
13
September
2023
Accepted:
12
December
2023
Published online:
8
February
2024
The scattering of B particles by B nuclei at the beam energy of 41.3 MeV has been studied. In this case, the angular distributions of the differential cross-sections for transitions to the ground (J
and excited (
= 2.124 MeV, J
= 1/2
) states of B nuclei were measured. The measured differential cross-sections of the elastic scattering showed a significant increase at large angles.The data were analyzed using various optical model potentials to test their suitability for describing the scattering, and extracting the spectroscopic amplitude value for the B 
B + n configuration.The analysis was extended to include previously measured angular distributions for the B + B system at B beam energies of 24, 36, 40 and 48 MeV. It showed that neutron transfer in the B(B,B)B reaction is the main mechanism of increasing cross sections at backward angles.
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