Abstract
Differential and total cross sections for the exclusive breakup of a projectile into and fragments from a target were measured at several energies around the Coulomb barrier. The exclusive cross sections are well reproduced by full continuum discretized coupled channel calculations with excitation up to 11.5 MeV of the system. The total exclusive cross sections are much smaller than the inclusive ones for the production of particles. This large difference gives very clear experimental evidence for the stripping breakup mechanism. Such a process, relevant in the reaction dynamics even at the Coulomb barrier with loosely bound projectiles such as needs to be carefully considered and described theoretically.
- Received 20 December 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.044607
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