Elastic Scattering of 55 MeV Protons from Heavy Nuclei

Abstract

Several targets, covering the spherical, deformed and transition regions of heavy nuclei, were bombarded with 55 MeV protons and angular distributions of the elastically scattered protons were measured. The diffraction structure of them are strongly damped for the deformed nuclei, as compared with that for the spherical nuclei and this feature changes gradually for nuclei of the transition region. The optical model analysis was also performed to discuss the details of the deformation effect.