Unusual Threshold Anomaly in the ^6Li＋^208Pb System

The angular distributions of elastic scattering for the ^6Li ＋^208Pb system have been measured at several energies around the Coulomb barrier. The parameters of optical potential are extracted by means of a phenomenological optical model analysis. It is found that the real and imaginal potentials show a pronounced energy dependence. The behaviour of the potential at the nearly especially sub-barrier energies in the ^6Li＋^208Pb system is quite different from the results of some previous reports observed in other systems, such as ^19F＋^208Pb and ^16O＋^208Pb. This unusual threshold phenomenon indicates that breakup channel is strongly coupled with the elastic channel and has obvious effects on optical potential.