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Mechanisms of direct reactions with halo nuclei
Halo nuclei are exotic nuclei which exhibit a strongly clusterised structure:
they can be seen as one or two valence nucleons loosely bound to a core. Being
observed at the ridge of the valley of stability, halo nuclei are studied
mostly through reactions. In this contribution the reaction models most
commonly used to analyse experimental data are reviewed and compared to one
another. A reaction observable built on the ratio of two angular distributions
is then presented. This ratio enables removing most of the sensitivity to the
reaction mechanism, which emphasises the effects of nuclear structure on the
reaction.Comment: Invited talk given by Pierre Capel at the "10th International
Conference on Clustering Aspects of Nuclear Structure and Dynamics"
(Cluster12), Debrecen, Hungary, 24-28 September 2012. To appear in the
Cluster12 Proceedings in the Open Access Journal of Physics: Conference
Series (JPCS). (5 pages, 3 figures
Nonlinear dynamics of relativistic charged particle beams
The idea behind this work is to analyze the transversal dynamics of a relativistic charged particle beam. The beam is azimuthally symmetric, focused by a constant magnetic field and supposed to be initially cold. While mismatched, nonrelativistic, and homogeneous beams oscillate with an invariant cold density profile, it is shown that relativistic homogeneous beams progressively heat and lose an important amount of constituents during its magnetic confinement. This heating process starts with phase-space wave-breaking, a mechanism observed before in initially inhomogeneous beams. The results have been obtained with full self-consistent N-particle beam numerical simulations
Coupling and higher-order effects in the 12C(d,p)13C and 13C(p,d)12C reactions
Coupled channels calculations are performed for the 12C(d,p)13C and
13C(p,d)12C reactions between 7 and 60 MeV to study the effect of inelastic
couplings in transfer reactions. The effect of treating transfer beyond Born
approximation is also addressed. The coupling to the 12C 2+ state is found to
change the peak cross-section by up to 15 %. Effects beyond Born approximation
lead to a significant renormalization of the cross-sections, between 5 and 10 %
for deuteron energies above 10 MeV, and larger than 10 % for lower energies. We
also performed calculations including the remnant term in the transfer
operator, which has a small impact on the 12C(d,p)13C(g.s.) and
13C(p,d)12C(g.s.) reactions. Above 30 MeV deuteron energy, the effect of the
remnant term is larger than 10 % for the 12C(d,p)13C(3.09 MeV) reaction and is
found to increase with decreasing neutron separation energy for the 3.09 MeV
state of 13C. This is of importance for transfer reactions with weakly bound
nuclei.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Recent developments in the eikonal description of the breakup of exotic nuclei
The study of exotic nuclear structures, such as halo nuclei, is usually
performed through nuclear reactions. An accurate reaction model coupled to a
realistic description of the projectile is needed to correctly interpret
experimental data. In this contribution, we briefly summarise the assumptions
made within the modelling of reactions involving halo nuclei. We describe
briefly the Continuum-Discretised Coupled Channel method (CDCC) and the
Dynamical Eikonal Approximation (DEA) in particular and present a comparison
between them for the breakup of 15C on Pb at 68AMeV. We show the problem faced
by the models based on the eikonal approximation at low energy and detail a
correction that enables their extension down to lower beam energies. A new
reaction observable is also presented. It consists of the ratio between angular
distributions for two different processes, such as elastic scattering and
breakup. This ratio is completely independent of the reaction mechanism and
hence is more sensitive to the projectile structure than usual reaction
observables, which makes it a very powerful tool to study exotic structures far
from stability.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the XXI International School on
Nuclear Physics and Applications & the International Symposium on Exotic
Nuclei, dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the JINR (Dubna) (Varna,
Bulgaria, 6-12 September 2015), 7 pages, 4 figure
Continuum effects in reactions involving weakly bound nuclei
The relevance of the continuum effects in transfer reactions is discussed in
conection with the determination of observables of astrophysical interest. In
particular, we examine the validity of the Distorted Wave Born Approximation
(DWBA) as a tool to extract the astrophysical \emph{(S_{17}(0))} factor. For
this purpose, we present calculations for the reaction (^{14})N((^{7}
)Be,(^{8})B)(^{13})C comparing the DWBA method with the more sophysticated
CDCC-Born approximationComment: Contribution to International Symposium on Physics of Unstable Nuclei
(ISPUN02) Halong Bay (Vietnam) November 20 to 25, 2002. To be published in
Nucl. Phy.
Structure Effects on Coulomb Dissociation of B
Coulomb Dissociation provides an alternative method for determining the
radiative capture cross sections at astrophysically relevant low relative
energies. For the breakup of B on Ni, we calculate the total Coulomb
Dissociation cross section and the angular distribution for E1, E2 and M1. Our
calculations are performed first within the standard first order semiclassical
theory of Coulomb Excitation, including the correct three body kinematics, and
later including the projectile-target nuclear interactions.Comment: 6 pages, proceedings from International Workshop on RNB, Puri, India,
January 1998 - to be published in J. Phys.
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