Distorted-wave Born approximation study of the 11Li(p,t) 9Li reaction

Date
2016
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IOP Publishing
Abstract
The reaction 11Li(p,t) 9Li(gs) at an incident energy of 4 MeV is treated in terms of a simplistic distorted-wave Born approximation transfer. The halo neutrons involved in the reaction are treated as a di-neutron cluster transferred in a simultaneous process. This appears to be a good approximation of the mechanism. The dominant contribution to the reaction comes from the known (1s1/2) 2 structure component of the ground state of 11Li, and the cross section angular distribution seems to be relatively insensitive to the fact that 11Li has an anomalously large radius due to its Borromean halo properties. Significantly this simple treatment of the reaction is in much better agreement with the experimental angular distribution than a more sophisticated calculation.
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CITATION: Cowley, A. A. 2016. Distorted-wave Born approximation study of the 11Li(p,t) 9Li reaction. XXI International School on Nuclear Physics and Applications & International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei (ISEN-2015) 6–12 September 2015, Varna, Bulgaria. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 724:012009, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/724/1/012009.
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Born approximation
Citation
Cowley, A. A. 2016. Distorted-wave Born approximation study of the 11Li(p,t) 9Li reaction. XXI International School on Nuclear Physics and Applications & International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei (ISEN-2015) 6–12 September 2015, Varna, Bulgaria. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 724:012009, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/724/1/012009.