Elastic and inelasticO16+12C scattering at 38 MeV/nucleon

The elastic and inelastic (4.44 MeV, $2^{+}$) scattering of 608 MeV ${}_{}{}^{16}{}_{}{}^{}$O${+\mathrm{}}^{12}$C has been measured up to 36° in the c.m. frame. Although the angular distributions are strongly dominated by far side contributions, this feature does not remove the continuous ambiguity in the optical model parameters. The calculated value for ${\sigma }_R$, 1337±22 mb, agrees with nuclear transparency predictions.