Elastic and inelastic intermediate-energy proton multiple scattering on ¹²C and ¹⁶O nuclei

The authors have calculated the differential cross sections and polarization observables for elastic and inelastic scattering of intermediate-energy protons on ¹²C and ¹⁶O nuclei on the basis of the multiple diffraction scattering theory with the nucleon density and transition density obtained from the alpha -cluster model with dispersion and from model-free analysis. They have shown that there is a qualitative difference between the elastic scattering spin-rotation functions calculated by the alpha -cluster model with dispersion and by the independent-nucleon model.