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A perturbative semiclassical approximation for the elastics-matrix is used to derive simple and accurate formulae describing the effects of a nuclear quadrupole deformation on the elastic scattering of aligned nuclei. Expressions are derived for the second rank tensor components of the analysing power, the ratios of which turn out to be simple trigonometric functions of the scattering angle in agreement with experimental observations. The approximations are discussed in some detail and higher order corrections are derived. In an appendix we derive a semiclassical first-order perturbation formula describing the effect of a non-central complex perturbation in the presence of a non-perturbatively treated central term. Our formula is in disagreement with some earlier published formulae which fail to treat the real part of the perturbation correctly.
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Crowley, B.J.B., Hill, T.F. Semiclassical treatment of quadrupole shape effects in the elastic scattering of heavy ions below the Coulomb barrier. Z Physik A 300, 299–312 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01419860
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