On pion-nucleus scattering, paper-II

This is the continuation of our earlier paper-I. We study the elastic scattering of pions from several nuclei between sup 1 sup 2 C to sup 2 sup 0 sup 8 Pb on either side of the Delta resonance and inelastic scattering leading to the lowest 2 sup + collective states in sup 1 sup 2 C, sup 2 sup 4 sup , sup 2 sup 6 Mg and sup 2 sup 8 Si. Both the elastic and inelastic scattering angular distributions are well reproduced by the strong absorption model. The deformation parameters obtained are in excellent agreement with previous studies. The ratio (G sub n (pi)/N)/ (G sub p (pi)/Z) for most of the levels covered in the present work is nearly unity, in good agreement with previous results obtained from DWIA analyses.