Fully damped Mott oscillations in sub-barrier elastic scattering of identical heavy ions and the nuclear interaction

Abstract

We investigate the possible disappearance of Mott oscillations in the scattering of bosonic nuclei at sub-barrier energies. This effect is universal and happens at a critical value of the Sommerfeld parameter. It is also found that the inclusion of the short-range nuclear interaction has a profound influence on this phenomenon. Thus we suggest that the study of this lack of Mott oscillation, which we call, "transverse isotropy" is a potentially useful mean to study the nuclear interaction.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to the Proceedings of "NUBA Conference Series-1: Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics", Adrasan-Antalya, Turkey, September 15 -21, 2014