Cluster Model For Reactions Induced By Weakly Bound And/Or Exotic Halo Nuclei With Medium-Mass Targets

TL;DR

This paper reviews experimental data on reactions involving weakly-bound and exotic halo nuclei with medium-mass targets, analyzing various reaction channels using a CDCC approach that includes breakup effects.

Contribution

It introduces a cluster model framework for analyzing reactions induced by weakly-bound and halo nuclei on medium-mass targets, incorporating breakup effects via CDCC methodology.

Findings

Breakup channels significantly influence reaction outcomes.

Elastic scattering and fusion data are well described by the CDCC approach.

Halo nuclei exhibit unique reaction mechanisms compared to stable nuclei.

Abstract

An experimental overview of reactions induced by the stable, but weakly-bound nuclei 6Li, 7Li and 9Be, and by the exotic, halo nuclei 6He, 8He, 8B, and 11Be on medium-mass targets, such as 58Ni, 59Co or 64Zn, is presented. Existing data on elastic scattering, total reaction cross sections, fusion processes, breakup and transfer channels are discussed in the framework of a CDCC approach taking into account the breakup degree of freedom.