Elastic scattering of nucleon by the lightest mirror nuclei 3H and 3He using the optical model potential

Abstract

The angular distribution of the nucleon elastic scattering on the lightest mirror nuclei 3H and 3He at incident energies of 6 and 9[Formula: see text]MeV has been analyzed. A new set of phenomenological optical potential parameters has been obtained. A comparison of differential cross-sections has been performed for both elastic scatterings of neutron and proton on the mirror nuclei. The contribution of individual volume, surface, and spin-orbit terms in the optical model potential for the projectiles at different energies was studied. The predicted elastic angular distributions results compared well with the experimental data.