Dedicated to Professor Theo Mayer-Kuckuk on the occasion of his 60th birthday Differential cross sections of e-elastic scattering have been measured for the target nuclei XlB, 12C, 13C, 14N, lSN, and 160 at E=48.7 and 54.1 MeV and for the nuclei 170, 180, and 2~ at E=54.1 MeV. The experimental results were analysed in terms of the optical model using different complex potentials. Special emphasis is given to the application of the double-folding approach for the real part of the potential. The imaginary part is expressed in terms of Fourier-Bessel functions. Differential cross sections for the e-160 scattering over a wide energy range and for the elastic e-scattering for nuclei in the mass range A=ll up to A=24 at E=54.1MeV are analysed by this method. A close correlation between the absorptive part of the potential and nuclear deformation is observed.

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