%0 Journal Article %T Improved Nearside-Farside Decomposition of Elastic Scattering Amplitudes %A R. Anni %A J. N. L. Connor %A C. Noli %J Physics %D 2001 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevC.66.044610 %X A simple technique is described, that provides improved nearside-farside (NF) decompositions of elastic scattering amplitudes. The technique, involving the resummation of a Legendre partial wave series, reduces the importance of unphysical contributions to NF subamplitudes, which can arise in more conventional NF decompositions. Applications are made to a strong absorption model and to a $^{16}$O + $^{12}$C optical potential at $E_{\text{lab}} = 132$ MeV. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0111060v1