CRITICAL COMPARISON OF FOLDED POTENTIAL AND DEFORMED POTENTIAL MODELSOF HEAVY-ION INELASTIC-SCATTERING

We give a comparative review of the use of the deformed potential and folded potential models for the analysis of data from the inelastic sc attering of heavy ions and alpha particles. Representative cases are s tudied. It is shown that use of the deformed potential can very signif icantly underestimate the corresponding nuclear transition rate by amo unts that increase strongly as the multipolarity increases. Some criti cism of the implicit folding procedure is also offered.