Coulomb- and nuclear-induced break-up of halo nuclei at bombarding energies around the Coulomb barrier

We investigate the relative importance of the Coulomb and nuclear fields to induce the break-up of neutron-rich nuclei such as 11 Li at energies close to the Coulomb barrier. We assume that the mechanism that leads to the separation is the excitation of a low-lying dipole mode in which the weakly-bo...

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Autores: Guisado Lizar, José Luis, Jiménez Morales, Francisco, Guerra, J.M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:1996
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/162307
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/162307
https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(95)00459-9
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Coulomb
Neutrons
Nuclear fields
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Sumario:We investigate the relative importance of the Coulomb and nuclear fields to induce the break-up of neutron-rich nuclei such as 11 Li at energies close to the Coulomb barrier. We assume that the mechanism that leads to the separation is the excitation of a low-lying dipole mode in which the weakly-bound neutron halo performs a collective oscillation against the residual nuclear core. To this end we exploit semiclassical prescriptions that are adequate to calculate not only the average break-up probabilities but also to estímate the size of fluctuations about the quantal expectation values. Possible outcomes are explored as a function of both bombarding energy and impact parameter. Consequences of the couplings for elastic scattering and fusion processes are also discussed.