Study of the 6Li+p and 7Li+p Systems in the Continuum Discretized Coupled Channels Approach

Abstract

A complete study of the 6,7Li + p reactions was performed by measuring the complete net of reaction channels at the energy range of ~ 2 to 5 MeV/nucleon. The experiments were performed at the MAGNEX facility of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS) in Catania. The breakup channel was identified by means of a new algorithm, MULTIP, which gives the possibility of following up the decay of the nucleus into two or more constituent particles from the rest frame of the nucleus itself to the laboratory frame. Angular distributions were obtained for all reaction products and were considered within the Continuum Discretized Coupled Channels (CDCC) framework. The results of the CDCC calculations were found in a very good agreement with the experimental data presenting a strong evidence for the important influence of coupling to breakup on the elastic channel.