Scattering of the halo nucleus 11Li and its core 9Li on 208Pb at energies around the Coulomb barrier

M. J G Borge*, M. Cubero, J. P. Fernández-García, L. Acosta, M. Alcorta, M. A G Alvarez, L. Buchmann, C. A. Diget, H. Al Falou, B. Fulton, H. O U Fynbo, D. Galaviz, J. Gómez-Camacho, R. Kanungo, J. A. Lay, M. Madurga, I. Mukha, T. Nilsson, A. M. Sánchez-Benítez, A. ShotterO. Tengblad, P. Walden

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Abstract

The first measurement of the elastic scattering of the halo nucleus 11Li and its core 9Li on 208Pb at energies around the Coulomb barrier is presented. The 11Li reaction showed a large cross section for the breakup channel, even at energies well below the barrier. The analysis of the 11Li + 208Pb scattering data in terms of the continuum-discretized coupled-channel calculations indicates that the effect of the coupling to the breakup channels produces a strong suppression of the elastic cross section at energies above and below the barrier. This effect is mainly due to the strong Coulomb coupling to the dipole states in the low-lying continuum of 11Li.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012085
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume381
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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