A fit to pionic atom data is used to determine four of the parameters of the low energy pion-nucleus optical potential, while the other parameters are taken from theory. The resulting potential is used to predict elastic scattering from 30-50 MeV pions. The effects of extrapolating the parameters to 50 MeV with a simple energy dependence are examined.NUCLEAR REACTIONS Optical potential, fit to pi-mesic atoms. Calculated elastic scattering with extrapolated potential at 30, 40, 50 MeV on individual targets.
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