Spin-orbit potentials for elastic scattering of polarized 6Li ions from 12C and 58Ni

Angular distributions of the differential cross section sigma/sigmasub(R), of the vector analyzing power iT11 and of the 2nd rank tensor analyzing power sup(T)T20 have been measured for elastic scattering of 6Li from 12C and 58Ni at 19.2 and 20.0 MeV, respectively. The vector and tensor polarization data can be well described using in addition to the complex central potential a real spin-orbit potential. Best-fit potentials are compared with those from folding models. In addition, vector analyzing power data were measured for 6Li-12C elastic scattering at 9.0 MeV bombarding energy. They are compared to predictions derived from an analysis of previously measured tensor analyzing powers of the same system at the same energy. (orig.)