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Differential cross sections and analyzing powers for elastic scattering from, and for inelastic proton scattering to a set of $2^+_1$ states in, ${}^{12}$C, ${}^{20}$Ne, ${}^{24}$Mg, ${}^{28}$Si and ${}^{40}$Ca, and for a set of energies…
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I present numerical study of an elastic scattering by solving second order differential equations of Schroedinger Equation for some types of central potential (eg. square well, Yukawa, and Woods-Saxon) to find the wave function inside the…
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