Role of nuclear couplings in the inelastic excitation of weakly bound neutron-rich nuclei

✍ Scribed by C.H. Dasso; S.M. Lenzi; A. Vitturi

• Book ID: 104336113
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 821 KB
• Volume: 611
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(96)00300-4

✦ Synopsis

We study the breakup of weakly bound systems close to the neutron drip line in collisions with heavy-ions. The process is described in terms of inelastic excitations leading to states in the continuum. The nuclear and Coulomb multipole fields induced by the reaction partner are both included in the microscopic construction of the inelastic form factors. A fraction of the dissociation cross sections is triggered by the presence of resonances at high excitation energy. The largest probabilities for breakup result, however, from strongly coupled transitions 1o lowlying states in the continuum. Nuclear couplings associated with inelastic excitation to these states are found to extend to unusually large distances. As a consequence, the interplay of nuclear and Coulomb excitations differs from the ordinary situation encountered in heavy-ion inelastic processes involving systems close to the stability line.