Elastic and inelastic scattering of polarized 7Li ions from a 26Mg target

Differential cross sections and analyzing powers TT10, TT20, T20, T21 and TT30 for elastic scattering of 44 MeV polarized 7Li from 26Mg, for projectile excitation to the 1−2 state at 0.48 MeV, target excitation to the 2+ state at 1.81 MeV and for the double excitation of both these states have been measured. The mechanism of these processes is studied within a coupled channel formalism. A strong influence of the deformation and excitation of the projectile on all measured observables is found. Further the results of the coupled channel calculations underline the importance of the third rank (TT30) analyzing powers in the analysis of polarized 7Li scattering on 26Mg.