Investigation of low-lying resonances in breakup of halo nuclei within the time-dependent approach

TL;DR

This paper uses a non-perturbative time-dependent approach to study the Coulomb breakup of $^{11}$Be halo nuclei, revealing the significance of specific resonances at different energies and aligning well with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a convergent computational scheme for analyzing halo nuclei breakup, including low-lying resonances, across a wide energy range.

Findings

Resonance $5/2^{+}$ significantly affects breakup cross section below 30 MeV/nucleon.

Resonances $3/2^{-}$ and $3/2^{+}$ dominate at higher energies.

Results agree well with experimental data at 69 and 72 MeV/nucleon.

Abstract

We investigate the Coulomb breakup of $^{11}$Be halo nuclei on a heavy target from intermediate (70 MeV/nucleon) to low energies (5 MeV/nucleon) within the non-perturbative time-dependent approach. The convergence of the computational scheme is demonstrated in this energy range including \textit{n}+$^{10}$Be low-lying resonances in different partial and spin states. We have found a considerable contribution of the $5/2^{+}$ resonance ($E_{r}$= 1.23 MeV) to the breakup cross section at 30 MeV/nucleon and lower, while at higher energies, the resonant states $3/2^{-}$ and $3/2^{+}$ (with $E_{r}$= 2.78 and 3.3 MeV) make most visible contributions. The obtained results are in good agreement with experimental data available at 69 and 72 MeV/nucleon. Comparison with the existing theoretical calculations of other authors for 20 and 30 MeV/nucleon is also made. The developed computational scheme opens new possibilities in the investigation of the Coulomb, as well as nuclear, breakup of other halo nuclei on heavy and light targets.