Experimental determination of the ion-ion potential in the N = 50 target region: A tool to probe ground-state nuclear densities Original Research Article

Precise elastic and inelastic differential cross sections have been measured for the View the MathML source, 90,92Zr, 92Mo systems at sub-barrier energies. From a coupled channel data analysis, the corresponding “experimental” bare potentials have been determined. The comparison of these potentials with those derived from double-folding theoretical calculations and the high energy (96 Mev/nucleon) elastic scattering data analysis indicate that the method is a very sensitive probe of the ground-state nuclear densities in the surface region.