INTERMEDIATE RESONANCES IN THE SCATTERING OF MG-24 ON MG-24

ABSTRACT. The reaction between two prolately deformed Mg-24 nuclei is treated in two successive steps: First, the deformed nuclei are described by the rotation-vibration model, and coupled channel calculations for elastic scattering and inelastic excitation are performed. Then the intermediate structure effects in the cross sections are investigated in a model describing molecular states of the Mg-24 + Mg-24 system with pole-to-pole-like configurations. The effects of these molecular states are superimposed on the coupled channel cross section within the R-matrix formalism. Comparing calculated and experimental intermediate structures in the cross sections we conclude that the latter ones originate from the excitation of pole-to-pole-like molecular states in the Mg-24 + Mg-24 system.