For the first time, differential cross section of the 16 Oϩ 12 C elastic scattering at E lab ϭ170, 200, 230, and 260 MeV has been measured over a wide angular range which covers both diffractive and refractive regions. In addition, the recent data at 132 MeV for this system have been remeasured with much better statistics. A well developed rainbow structure has been observed, where up to three Airy minima could be identified in each measured angular distribution. The optical model analysis of these data was done using the conventional Woods-Saxon shape for the optical potential as well as that given by the folding model. The Airy systematics enabled us to suggest a realistic family of the optical potential for the 16 Oϩ 12 C system, which consistently describes the new data as well as the data measured earlier at incident energies of 608 and 1503 MeV. Our results show that the 16 Oϩ 12 C system is a very suitable heavy-ion combination for the study of refractive phenomena, which can give important information on the nucleus-nucleus potential at small distances.
The mass of ~~ has been measured with two different reactions: 9Be(a3C, 12N)1~ ELab=336 MeV, and13C(14C, 17F)l~ ELa b = 337 MeV. The mass excess of 33.445(50) MeV is deduced from the Q-value measurement. l~ is found to be particle-unstable with respect to one-neutron emission by 0.42(5) MeV. In the analysis of the first reaction a low lying excited state is found at 0.38 (8) MeV. This state and the ground state can be most probably identified as the 1 +/2+-doublet coupled from the [Tr 1 p 3/2 | v 1 p 1/2] configuration, the 1 +-state being the ground state. The (13C, 12N)-reaction populates the 1 +-state strongly due to a spin-isospin-flip character of the dominant part of the transition amplitude. The 2+member corresponds to the mass given by Wilcox et al. A second excited state is observed at 4.05(10)MeV with a width of 0.7(2) MeV, it can be associated with the v 1 d 5/2-strength. The second reaction is fully supporting the interpretation of the ground state doublet. The excited state at 4.05 MeV is not observed in this reaction and indeed it should not, because the reaction does not populate in first order excited neutron configurations. The levels are well described by mean field calculations including pairing correlations. The lowest resonance in the calculations is the v 1/2--configuration, whereas the v 1/2+-configuration shows at the neutron threshold a strong nonresonant contribution.
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