DWBA approach to inelastic scattering at medium energies

Medium energy proton elastic and inelastic scattering to states of ⁵⁸Ni and ²⁰⁸Pb, and ⁴He elastic and inelastic scattering to states of ⁴⁰Ca, are analyzed using the partial wave approach, by solving the Schrödinger equation with relativistic kinematics and using the distorted wave Born approximation. Our results can be compared with results of several previous analyses of the nucleon inelastic data using the Glauber approximation. Our calculations are absolute, using nuclear collective parameters obtained from a survey of a large number of low-energy analyses of inelastic scattering of electrons, nucleons and nuclei from ⁴⁰Ca, ⁵⁸Ni and ²⁰⁸Pb.