Scattering of halo nuclei on heavy targets at energies around the Coulomb barrier: The case of 11Be on 197Au

V. Pesudo; M.J.G. Borge; A.M. Moro; J.A. Lay; E. Nácher; J. Gómez-Camacho; O. Tengblad; L. Acosta; M. Alcorta; M.A.G. Alvarez; C. Andreoiu; P.C. Bender; R. Braid; M. Cubero; A. Di Pietro; J.P. Fernández-García; P. Figuera; M. Fisichella; B.R. Fulton; A.B. Garnsworthy; G. Hackman; U. Hager; O.S. Kirsebom; K. Kuhn; M. Lattuada; G. Marquínez-Durán; I. Martel; D. Miller; M. Moukaddam; P.D. O'Malley; A. Perea; M.M. Rajabali; A.M. Sánchez-Benítez; F. Sarazin; V. Scuderi; C.E. Svensson; C. Unsworth; Z.M. Wang

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716300045

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E3S Web of Conferences 163, 00045 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716300045

Scattering of halo nuclei on heavy targets at energies around the Coulomb barrier: The case of ¹¹Be on ¹⁹⁷Au

V. Pesudo¹^,2^*, M.J.G. Borge³^,4, A.M. Moro⁵, J.A. Lay⁵, E. Nácher³, J. Gómez-Camacho⁵^,6, O. Tengblad³, L. Acosta⁷, M. Alcorta⁸, M.A.G. Alvarez⁹, C. Andreoiu¹⁰, P.C. Bender¹¹, R. Braid¹², M. Cubero¹³, A. Di Pietro¹⁴, J.P. Fernández-García⁵, P. Figuera¹⁴, M. Fisichella¹⁴, B.R. Fulton¹⁵, A.B. Garnsworthy¹¹, G. Hackman¹¹, U. Hager¹⁶, O.S. Kirsebom¹⁷, K. Kuhn¹², M. Lattuada¹⁴^,18, G. Marquínez-Durán¹⁹, I. Martel¹⁹, D. Miller¹¹, M. Moukaddam¹¹, P.D. O'Malley⁵, A. Perea⁵, M.M. Rajabali¹¹, A.M. Sánchez-Benítez¹⁹, F. Sarazin¹², V. Scuderi¹⁴, C.E. Svensson²⁰, C. Unsworth¹¹ and Z.M. Wang¹⁰^,11

¹ Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, P/B X17, Bellville ZA-7535, South Africa
² iThemba LABS, Somerset West 7129, South Africa
³ Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, 28006 Madrid, Spain
⁴ ISOLDE-EP, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
⁵ Dept de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nucl., Univ. de Sevilla, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
⁶ CN de Aceleradores (U. Sevilla, J. Andalucía, CSIC), 41092, Sevilla, Spain
⁷ Instituto de Física. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 20-364, Cd.Mx. 01000 Mexico
⁸ Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
⁹ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
¹⁰ Dept. of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6
¹¹ TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
¹² Physics Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
¹³ CICANUM, Universidad de Costa Rica, Apdo. 2060, San José, Costa Rica
¹⁴ Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN, via Santa Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
¹⁵ Department of Physics, University of York, YO 10 5DD Heslington, York, UK
¹⁶ National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
¹⁸ Dipart. di Fisica e Astronomia, via Santa Sofia 64, 95123, Catania, Italy
¹⁹ Departamento de Ciencias integradas, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
²⁰ Dept. of Physics. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada

^* e-mail: vicentepesudo@tlabs.ac.za

Published online: 22 November 2017

Abstract

This work reports on the scattering of ¹¹Be on ¹⁹⁷Au at energies around and below the Coulomb barrier. By experimentally identifying the elastic scattering, inelastic scattering and breakup channels, and comparing them with different calculations, valuable information on the ¹¹Be structure and its B(E1) distribution to the continuum are obtained. On top of that, a deeper understanding of the scattering process at low energies is achieved for reactions of this kind, making these studies extendable to other loosely-bound systems like ^17,19C

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