Damping of Mott oscillations as a guide for planning a 6Li +6 Li scattering experiment

Abstract

Abstract Mott oscillations are a quantum oscillation pattern observed in angular distributions of identical particle scatterings. When both incident and target particles are bosons (integer spin), there are energies at which Mott oscillations are damped around 90° in the center-of-mass frame, a phenomenon called Transverse Isotropy (TI). Different optical potentials predict different TI energies, so TI energy measurements can provide insight into nucleus-nucleus interaction. Data on angular distributions for identical scattering of 6Li nuclei (s = 1) is available in the literature but at very limited values of energies and angular range. We have analyzed some of these angular distributions with the Fresco code, considering Woods-Saxon potentials in the calculations, and have emphasized the importance of conducting an experiment of our own.