Optical-Model Analysis of 15-MeV Deuteron Elastic Scattering

Abstract

An optical-model analysis is made of deuteron elastic scattering from several nuclei for a deuteron bom-barding energy of 15 MeV. The trend of the optical-potential parameters to vary smoothly as a function of mass number is found to be in essential agreement with that obtained in a previous analysis. Numerical values of the parameters are given and should be of help in generating wave functions for distorted-wave analysis of deuteron reactions at 15 MeV.