Nuclear Heavy-ion-Heavy-ion Collisions and the Intermediate-State Model

Abstract

Five excitation functions from 50 to 90\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} (c.m. system) for ${\mathrm{O}}^{16}$-${\mathrm{O}}^{16}$ elastic scattering can be accounted for by a nuclear molecular potential. The parameters of this potential are estimated from the two-nucleon potential in a model of the transient nuclear matter state.