Investigating the O + C reaction over a wide range of energies.

The main aim of this work was to describe the reactions of elastic scattering of O + C over a wide range of energies in an optical model with an l-dependent core. We obtained a value for the compressibility coefficient that agreed with the one found from data on the giant monopole resonance. We considered the elastic transfer of an α particle to reproduce the cross section in the reverse hemisphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]