Confirmation of the PredictedLDependence in the Radial Form Factor for Nucleus-Nucleus Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

The multipolarity ($L$) dependence of the inelastic form factor for heavy-ion-induced excitations predicted by the folding model is confirmed in the analysis of the scattering of ${}_{}{}^{14}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{N}$ from ${}_{}{}^{12}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C}$ and ${}_{}{}^{16}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{O}$ at 155 MeV. Agreement between the target deformation lengths (${\beta }_L{R}_t$) of these measurements and those from electromagnetic and proton experiments is found when the strongly $L$-dependent folding-model form factor is employed.