Status of art of reaction models for projectiles far from stability

TL;DR

This paper reviews advanced nuclear and Coulomb breakup theories, their connection to optical models, and presents new experimental feasibility studies involving exotic heavy projectiles far from stability.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of current reaction models for unstable projectiles and introduces new experimental approaches for studying heavy exotic nuclei.

Findings

Breakup theories are closely related to optical models.

Numerical calculations align with experimental data.

Feasibility of novel experiments with heavy unstable projectiles is demonstrated.

Abstract

This talk will review the status of art of nuclear and Coulomb breakup theories and their relation to optical models of elastic scattering of exotic projectiles. The effect of the final state interactions between the breakup particle and the core and target nuclei will be clarified and some typical numerical calculations for the relevant observables will be presented and compared to experimental data. Finally new results will be shown to demonstrate the feasibility of a novel type of experiment involving heavy projectiles far from stability on heavy targets.