skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Dissecting reaction calculations using halo effective field theory and ab initio input

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]
  1. Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics; Free Univ. of Brussels (ULB) (Belgium). Nuclear and Quantum Physics; GSI-Darmstadt (Germany). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI); Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics
  2. GSI-Darmstadt (Germany). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI); Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics; Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States). Inst. of Nuclear and Particle Physics and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. GSI-Darmstadt (Germany). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI); Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics

Here, we present a description of the breakup of halo nuclei in peripheral nuclear reactions by coupling a model of the projectile motivated by halo effective field theory with a fully dynamical treatment of the reaction using the dynamical eikonal approximation. Our description of the halo system reproduces its long-range properties, i.e., binding energy and asymptotic normalization coefficients of bound states and phase shifts of continuum states. As an application we consider the breakup of 11Be in collisions on Pb and C targets. Taking the input for our halo-EFT-inspired description of 11Be from a recent ab initio calculation of that system yields a good description of the Coulomb-dominated breakup on Pb at energies up to about 2 MeV, with the result essentially independent of the short-distance part of the halo wave function. However, the nuclear dominated breakup on C is more sensitive to short-range physics. The role of spectroscopic factors and possible extensions of our approach to include additional short-range mechanisms are also discussed.

Research Organization:
Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); European Union (EU); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-93ER40756; 654002; 05P15RDFN1
OSTI ID:
1471672
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1471786
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 98, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 26 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (69)

Structure of A = 10 13 Nuclei with Two- Plus Three-Nucleon Interactions from Chiral Effective Field Theory journal July 2007
He 6 nucleus in halo effective field theory journal October 2014
Coulomb and nuclear breakup of a halo nucleus Be11 journal November 2004
Effective field theory for halo nuclei: shallow -wave states journal December 2002
Time-dependent analysis of the breakup of halo nuclei journal July 2003
Calculations of three-body observables in 8 B breakup journal January 2001
Range corrections for two-neutron halo nuclei in effective theory journal May 2010
Reconciling Coulomb breakup and neutron radiative capture journal July 2017
Ab Initio Description of the Exotic Unbound He 7 Nucleus journal January 2013
The three-boson system with short-range interactions journal February 1999
Extraction of the ANC from the 10 Be( d, p ) 11 Be transfer reaction using the ADWA method journal May 2018
Halos and related structures journal January 2013
Peripherality of breakup reactions journal May 2007
Combining ab initio calculations and low-energy effective field theory for halo nuclear systems: The case of Be 7 + p B 8 + γ journal May 2014
Renormalization of the Three-Body System with Short-Range Interactions journal January 1999
Electric properties of the Beryllium-11 system in Halo EFT journal August 2011
Energy levels of light nuclei A = 11−12 journal January 1990
Effective-Range Approach and Scaling Laws for Electromagnetic Strength in Neutron-Halo Nuclei journal September 2004
Interplay Between Valence and Core Excitation Mechanisms in the Breakup of Halo Nuclei journal December 2012
Energy levels of light nuclei journal April 2012
Continuum-discretized coupled-channels calculations for three-body models of deuteron-nucleus reactions journal October 1987
Combining ab initio calculations and low-energy effective field theory for halo nuclear systems: The case of 7 Li + n 8 Li + γ journal February 2014
Precision measurement of the electromagnetic dipole strengths in <mml:math altimg="si1.gif" overflow="scroll" xmlns:xocs="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/xocs/dtd" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:ja="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:tb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/table/dtd" xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:cals="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/cals/dtd" xmlns:sa="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-aff/dtd"><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">Be</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mrow><mml:mn>11</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:math> journal May 2014
Dynamical eikonal approximation in breakup reactions of Be 11 journal February 2006
Dynamical description of the breakup of one-neutron halo nuclei 11 Be and 19 C journal June 2001
Erratum: Scattering and reaction dynamics for the C 12 + p system journal October 1980
Universal properties and structure of halo nuclei journal August 2008
Coulomb Dissociation of C 19 and its Halo Structure journal August 1999
White paper on nuclear astrophysics and low-energy nuclear physics, Part 2: Low-energy nuclear physics journal May 2017
Can Ab Initio Theory Explain the Phenomenon of Parity Inversion in Be 11 ? journal December 2016
Time-dependent analysis of the breakup of Be 11 on C 12 at 67 MeV nucleon journal December 2004
Low energy expansion in the three body system to all orders and the triton channel journal February 2003
Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives of Nuclear Reaction Studies with Radioactive Ion Beams journal January 2015
Implications of Efimov physics for the description of three and four nucleons in chiral effective field theory journal February 2017
Causality and the effective range expansion journal October 2010
Alpha-nucleus elastic scattering at intermediate energies journal December 1985
Electromagnetic strength of neutron and proton single-particle halo nuclei journal September 2005
Effective theory of the triton journal August 2000
Unified ab initio approach to bound and unbound states: No-core shell model with continuum and its application to 7 He journal March 2013
Influence of the projectile description on breakup calculations journal January 2006
How short is too short? Constraining zero-range interactions in nucleon-nucleon scattering journal January 1997
Light dripline nuclei journal January 2004
Nucleon-Nucleus Optical-Model Parameters, A > 40 , E < 50 MeV journal June 1969
Nuclear forces from chiral Lagrangians using the method of unitary transformation II: The two-nucleon system journal May 2000
Chapter I. Projectile Breakup Processes in Nuclear Reactions journal January 1986
Causality and universality in low-energy quantum scattering journal November 2009
Influence of low-energy scattering on loosely bound states journal January 2010
Effective field theory description of halo nuclei journal September 2017
Exclusive measurement of breakup reactions with the one-neutron halo nucleus 11 Be journal September 2003
Neutron halo nuclei journal February 1996
Erratum: Reconciling Coulomb breakup and neutron radiative capture [Phys. Rev. C 96 , 015801 (2017)] journal July 2018
Comparing nonperturbative models of the breakup of neutron-halo nuclei journal April 2012
Lower Limit for the Energy Derivative of the Scattering Phase Shift journal April 1955
Coulomb breakup mechanism of neutron drip-line nuclei journal September 1994
D IRECT R EACTIONS WITH E XOTIC N UCLEI journal December 2003
Higher-order dynamical effects in Coulomb dissociation journal January 1995
Narrow resonances in effective field theory journal September 2003
Computational challenges to the development of modern theories of nuclear reactions journal July 2014
Collisions of Halo Nuclei within a Dynamical Eikonal Approximation journal August 2005
Beyond the eikonal model for few-body systems journal March 1997
Unified ab initio approaches to nuclear structure and reactions journal April 2016
Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction journal May 2015
19C in halo EFT: Effective-range parameters from Coulomb dissociation experiments journal September 2013
Effective Field Theory and the Gamow Shell Model: The 6He Halo Nucleus journal May 2012
Scattering and reaction dynamics for the C 12 + p system journal June 1980
Constraining low-energy proton capture on beryllium-7 through charge radius measurements journal November 2014
New coupled-channel approach to nuclear and Coulomb breakup reactions journal December 2003
Analysis of Coulomb breakup experiments of B 8 with a dynamical eikonal approximation journal August 2007
Improving the convergence of NN effective field theory journal February 2000

Cited By (2)

Low-energy bound states, resonances, and scattering of light ions journal November 2019
Low-energy bound states, resonances, and scattering of light ions text January 2019

Similar Records

Halo effective field theory analysis of one-neutron knockout reactions of Be11 and C15
Journal Article · Tue Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physical Review. C · OSTI ID:1471672

Simulating core excitation in breakup reactions of halo nuclei using an effective three-body force
Journal Article · Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Physics Letters B · OSTI ID:1471672

Effective field theory analysis of the Coulomb breakup of the one-neutron halo nucleus $$^{19}$$C
Journal Article · Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2023 · European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online) · OSTI ID:1471672