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Multi-step direct reaction approach to continuum spectra of heavy-ion-induced reactions: role of breakup-fusion processes

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5951783
The multi-step direct reaction theory for continuum cross sections is extended, so as to describe also the absorption of part of the direct reaction product, by the target-like nucleus. When the direct reaction which precedes the absorption is an elastic-breakup, the process may be called breakup-fusion, and a detailed formalism is given having this process in mind. Several successful applications of this new formalism are also presented. One example is the removal, in the /sup 20/Ne induced reaction, of the magnitude discrepancy between the /sup 16/O and ..cap alpha.. correlation and their singles cross sections. The so-called massive transfer reaction is also found to be nicely described this way. It is further shown that the large cross sections of energetic light particles, produced in heavy-ion induced reactions, can also be explained in terms of the breakup-fusion mechanism.
Research Organization:
Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Dept. of Physics
DOE Contract Number:
AS05-81ER40031
OSTI ID:
5951783
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40031-T2; ON: DE82003064
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English