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Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Jul 09;105(2):022701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.022701. Epub 2010 Jul 06.

Elastic scattering and reaction mechanisms of the halo nucleus 11Be around the Coulomb barrier.

Physical review letters

A Di Pietro, G Randisi, V Scuderi, L Acosta, F Amorini, M J G Borge, P Figuera, M Fisichella, L M Fraile, J Gomez-Camacho, H Jeppesen, M Lattuada, I Martel, M Milin, A Musumarra, M Papa, M G Pellegriti, F Perez-Bernal, R Raabe, F Rizzo, D Santonocito, G Scalia, O Tengblad, D Torresi, A Maira Vidal, D Voulot, F Wenander, M Zadro

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  1. INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud and Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy.

PMID: 20867705 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.022701

Abstract

Collisions induced by (9,10,11)Be on a 64Zn target at the same c.m. energy were studied. For the first time, strong effects of the 11Be halo structure on elastic-scattering and reaction mechanisms at energies near the Coulomb barrier are evidenced experimentally. The elastic-scattering cross section of the 11Be halo nucleus shows unusual behavior in the Coulomb-nuclear interference peak angular region. The extracted total-reaction cross section for the 11Be collision is more than double the ones measured in the collisions induced by (9,10)Be. It is shown that such a strong enhancement of the total-reaction cross section with 11Be is due to transfer and breakup processes.

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