The N-13+C-12 and C-13+C-12 elastic cross sections are measured at the center-of-mass energies of 7.8, 9.6, and 14.2 MeV, using radioactive N-13 and stable C-13 beams and position-sensitive solid-state detectors. These data are analyzed with the optical model assuming the same real central part of the nuclear potential for both systems as suggested by charge symmetry. The N-13+C-12 angular distributions display a significant backward rise which arises from a parity dependence of the nucleus-nucleus interaction, as for the mirror C-13+C-12 system. The corresponding parity terms in both potentials are similar when the different charges of the exchanged nucleons and their different binding energies are properly taken into account. A smaller imaginary part is obtained for N-13+C-12 than for C-13+C-12, which might be due to a smaller number of open-two-body inelastic and direct reaction channels.
Lienard, E., Baye, D., Delbar, T., Descouvemont, P., Duhamel, P., Galster, W., Kurokawa, M., Leleux, P., Licot, I., Lipnik, P., Michotte, C., Motobayashi, T., Ninane, A., Vanhorenbeeck, J., & Vervier, J. (1995). Comparative Experimental-study of the Mirror N-13+c-12 and C-13+c-12 Elastic Scatterings. Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics), 52(2), 775-783. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.52.775 (Original work published 1995)