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Breakup reactions of the halo nuclei {sup 11}Be and {sup 8}B

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 (United States)
  2. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
We calculate the nuclear induced breakup of {sup 11}Be and {sup 8}B using a more realistic treatment of the diffraction and stripping processes than in previous work. The breakup is treated in the eikonal approximation with a profile function calculated from a realistic optical potential at low energies and from free nucleon-nucleon cross sections at high energies. This treatment gives a good description of measured breakup cross sections, as well as the longitudinal momentum distribution of the corelike fragments, which is narrower than predicted in the transparent limit. The real part of the potential is found to be significant and enhances the diffractive breakup at low energies. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
Research Organization:
University of Washington
DOE Contract Number:
FG06-90ER40561; W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
397699
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 54; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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