Analysis of elastic and inelastic hadron scattering on 6,7Li nuclei within diffraction theory

Within Glauber-Sitenko multiple-scattering theory, the differential cross sections for elastic and inelastic proton, positive-pion, and positive-kaon scattering on ^6,7Li nuclei are calculated at incident-hadron energies ranging between 0.143 and 1.0 GeV. The ⁶Li and ⁷Li wave functions are taken in, respectively, the α2N and the αt clustermodel. The resulting cross sections are investigated as functions of the scattered-particle energy, parameters of the model wave functions, and various scattering multiplicities. It is concluded that a partial filling of the diffraction minimum in the cross section is due to the D-wave contribution to the wave function for the ⁶Li target nucleus.