Scattering of light halo nuclei on heavy target at energies around the Coulomb barrier

Abstract

We report here on experiments performed at TRIUMF to study the scattering of the light halo nuclei 11Li on lead at energies below and around the Coulomb barrier. The the elastic and break-up differential cross section are interpreted in the framework of Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channel calculations. The departure from Rutherford scattering at energies below the barrier is well beyond the behavior of normal nuclei. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2014.