Angular Dispersion and Deflection Function for Heavy Ion Elastic Scattering

The differential cross sections for elastic scattering products of ¹⁷F on ²⁰⁸Pb have been measured. The angular dispersion plots of ln(dσ/dθ) versus θ² are obtained from the angular distribution of the elastic scattering differential cross sections. Systematical analysis on the angular dispersion for the available experimental data indicates that there is an angular dispersion turning angle at forward angular range within the grazing angle. This turning
angle can be clarified as nuclear rainbow in classical deflection function. The exotic behaviour of the nuclear rainbow angle offers a new probe to investigate the halo and skin phenomena.