Near barrier scattering of 8He on 208Pb

The exotic nucleus He-8 is investigated by means of the measurement of the angular distributions of the elastic channel and the He-6 and He-4 fragment yields produced in the collision with a Pb-208 target at two energies around the Coulomb barrier, 16 and 22 MeV. The experiment was performed at the GANIL-SPIRAL facility, with the aim of extracting information about the structure of He-8 and the relevant reaction mechanisms. In this contribution, details of the experimental setup and preliminary data on elastic cross sections are reported

Scattering of 8He on 208Pb at 22 MeV

The skin nucleus He-8 is investigated by measuring the angular distribution of the elasticly scattered He-8 and the He-6,He-4 fragments produced in the collision with a Pb-208 target at 22 MeV, just above the Coulomb barrier. The experiment was carried out at SPIRAL/GANIL in 2010. Here we present preliminary results for the elastic scattering