Abstract
A microscopic optical potential, which is calculated nonrelativistically with a density-dependent effective force, is used to calculate cross sections, polarizations, and spin-rotation functions for elastic proton scattering from Ca40 at 160 and 497 MeV. At 160 MeV, the agreement to the data is comparable to phenomenological fits, and the spin rotation can be used to distinguish between microscopic and Woods-Saxon potentials. A good fit to the spin-rotation function results at 497 MeV, whereas the polarization data are not well reproduced.