A broad angular-range measurement of elastic and inelastic scatterings in the 16O on 27Al reaction at 17.5Â MeV/u

The elastic and inelastic scattering of 16O ions on 27Al target nuclei were measured in a broad angular range (5°<θlab<40°) at 280 MeV incident energy. The beam was accelerated by the K800 Superconducting Cyclotron at the INFN-LNS laboratory. The ejectiles were detected by the MAGNEX large acceptance magnetic spectrometer. The matching of the beam properties with the optical characteristics of the spectrometer allowed to separate the elastic from the inelastic channels in the energy spectra and measure accurate cross-section distributed over more than eight orders of magnitude down to a few tens of nb/sr.