Elastic Scattering and Reaction Mechanisms of the Halo Nucleus {sup 11}Be around the Coulomb Barrier

Journal Article · Fri Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.105.022701· OSTI ID:21410904

Di Pietro, A; Figuera, P; Papa, M; Santonocito, D ^[1]; Randisi, G; Scuderi, V; Amorini, F; Fisichella, M; Lattuada, M; Pellegriti, M G; Rizzo, F; Scalia, G; Torresi, D ^[1]; Acosta, L; Martel, I; Perez-Bernal, F ^[2]; Borge, M J. G.; Tengblad, O; Vidal, A Maira ^[3]; Fraile, L M ^[4]

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1. INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud and Sezione di Catania, Catania (Italy)
2. Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva (Spain)
3. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
4. ISOLDE, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Collisions induced by {sup 9,10,11}Be on a {sup 64}Zn target at the same c.m. energy were studied. For the first time, strong effects of the {sup 11}Be halo structure on elastic-scattering and reaction mechanisms at energies near the Coulomb barrier are evidenced experimentally. The elastic-scattering cross section of the {sup 11}Be halo nucleus shows unusual behavior in the Coulomb-nuclear interference peak angular region. The extracted total-reaction cross section for the {sup 11}Be collision is more than double the ones measured in the collisions induced by {sup 9,10}Be. It is shown that such a strong enhancement of the total-reaction cross section with {sup 11}Be is due to transfer and breakup processes.

• OSTI ID: 21410904
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.022701; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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