Challenging measurement of the 16O+27Al elastic and inelastic angular distributions up to large angles

The 16O+27Al elastic and inelastic angular distributions have been measured in a broad angular range (13°<θlab<52°) at about 100 MeV incident energy. The use of the MAGNEX large acceptance magnetic spectrometer and of the ray-reconstruction analysis technique has been crucial in order to provide, in the same experiment, high-resolution energy spectra and cross-section measurements distributed over more than seven orders of magnitude down to hundreds of nb/sr.