Polarization potentials for the 208Pb(7Li,6Li)209Pb transfer

Recent optical model analyses of near-barrier 7Li+208Pb elastic scattering data found a peak in the energy dependence of WOM, the strength of the imaginary part of the optical model potential at the strong absorption radius. It was speculated that this might be due to the polarization potentials produced by couplings to the 208Pb(7Li,6Li)209Pb transfer channels. In this Brief Report we show explicitly that such couplings do indeed produce polarization potentials with the same energy dependence as that observed for the empirical optical potentials. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society