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Motivated by the strong synergy between structure and nuclear reactions we have performed a phenomenological analysis using available elastic scattering data for collisions of tightly-bound ( $$^{10}\hbox {Be}$$ , $$^{10}\hbox {B}$$ , $$^{10}\hbox {C}$$ , $$^{11}\hbox {B}$$ , $$^{12}\hbox {C}$$ , $$^{16}\hbox {O}$$ ), weakly-bound ( $$^6\hbox {Li}$$ , $$^7\hbox {Li}$$ , $$^8\hbox {Li}$$ , $$^9\hbox {Be}$$ ), and exotic ( $$^6\hbox {He}$$ , $$^{8}\hbox {B}$$ and $$^{11}\hbox {Be}$$ ) nuclei on $$^{58}\hbox {Ni}$$ and $$^{64}\hbox {Zn}$$ targets at energies close to the Coulomb barrier. After a proper reduction, the cluster configuration and dynamics effects in the total reaction cross section are discussed. Also, an approach based on the interaction distances is used to investigate static and dynamic effects in the elastic scattering of light nuclei. A correlation between the critical interaction distance and binding energy for a given configuration is observed.

We have measured the elastic scattering cross-section for 8Li + 9Be and 8Li + 51V systems at 19.6MeV and 18.5MeV, respectively. We have also extracted total reaction cross sections from the elastic scattering analysis for several light weakly bound systems using the optical model with Woods-Saxon and double-folding-type potentials. Different reduction methods for the total reaction cross-sections have been applied to analyze and compare simultaneously all the systems.