@article{3071786,
    title = "Initial state interaction for the20 ne +130 te and18 o +116 sn systems at 15.3 amev from elastic and inelastic scattering measurements",
    author = "Carbone, D. and Linares, R. and Amador-Valenzuela, P. and Calabrese, S. and Cappuzzello, F. and Cavallaro, M. and Firat, S. and Fisichella, M. and Spatafora, A. and Acosta, L. and Agodi, C. and Boztosun, I. and Brischetto, G.A. and Calvo, D. and Chávez Lomelí, E.R. and Ciraldo, I. and Cutuli, M. and Delaunay, F. and Deshmukh, N. and Finocchiaro, P. and Foti, A. and Hacisalihoglu, A. and Iazzi, F. and La Fauci, L. and Lanzalone, G. and Medina, N.H. and Mendes, D. and Oliveira, J.R.B. and Pakou, A. and Pandola, L. and Petrascu, H. and Pinna, F. and Russo, G. and Sgouros, O. and Solakci, S.O. and Soukeras, V. and Souliotis, G. and Torresi, D. and Tudisco, S. and Yildirim, A. and Zagatto, V.A.B. and NUMEN collaboration",
    journal = "Princeton University Bulletin",
    year = "2021",
    volume = "7",
    number = "3",
    publisher = "MDPI AG",
    doi = "10.3390/universe7030058",
    abstract = "Double charge exchange (DCE) reactions could provide experimentally driven information about nuclear matrix elements of interest in the context of neutrinoless double-β decay. To achieve this goal, a detailed description of the reaction mechanism is mandatory. This requires the full characterization of the initial and final-state interactions, which are poorly known for many of the projectile-target systems involved in future DCE studies. Among these, we intend to study the20 Ne +130 Te and18 O +116 Sn systems at 15.3 AMeV, which are particularly relevant due to their connection with the130 Te→130 Xe and116 Cd→116 Sn double-β decays. We measure the elastic and inelastic scattering cross-section angular distributions and compare them with theoretical calculations performed in the optical model, one-step distorted wave Born approximation, and coupled-channel approaches using the São Paulo double-folding optical potential. A good description of the experimental data in the whole explored range of transferred momenta is obtained provided that couplings with the 2+1 states of the projectile and target are explicitly included within the coupled-channel approach. These results are relevant also in the analysis of other quasi-elastic reaction channels in these systems, in which the same couplings should be included. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland."
}