Breakup coupling effects on near-barrier inelastic scattering of the weakly bound 6Li projectile on a 144Sm target

A.E. WOODARD; J.M. FIGUEIRA; D.R. OTOMAR; J.O. FERNÁNDEZ NIELLO; J. LUBIAN; A. ARAZI; O.A. CAPURRO; P. CARNELLI ; L. FIMIANI ; G.V. MARTÍ; D. MARTINEZ HEIMANN; D.S. MONTEIRO ; A.E. NEGRI; A.J. PACHECO ; P.R.S. GOMES

NUCLEAR PHYSICS A

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Año: 2012 vol. 873 p. 17 - 27

0375-9474

Angular distributions for the inelastic scattering of the weakly bound 6Li nucleus from a 144Sm target (associated with the contributions of both the 2+ and 3- 144Sm excited states together) were measured at bombarding energies close to the Coulomb barrier. The experimental data were compared with expected results based on continuum discretized coupled-channel (CDCC) calculations. The results confirm that it is essential to include continuum?continuum couplings to reproduce the experimental data. The analysis demonstrates that inelastic scattering data can be a critical tool in testing full CDCC calculations involving weakly bound nuclei.