Elastic scattering of a secondary 11Li beam on 28Si at 29 MeV/nucleon

The elastic scattering of a secondary 11 Li beam (29 MeV/nucleon) on a 28 Si target has been measured for the first time. To compensate for the low intensity of the secondary beam, an efficient detecting system permitting one to obtain reliable experimental data has been used. An attempt has been made to reproduce the data in a phenomenological analysis and with coupled-channel calculations with a double-folding optical potential, with energy- and density-dependent effective interaction and realistic densities. In coupled-channel calculations with the folding optical potential a better description is achieved if a neutron halo of 11 Li is taken into account.