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

WOODARD, ANNA E.; FIGUEIRA, JUAN MANUEL; RAMOS OTOMAR, DENILSON; FERNÁNDEZ NIELLO, JORGE O.; LUBIAN, JESÚS; ARAZI, ANDRÉS; CAPURRO, OSCAR A.; CARNELLI, PATRICIO FRANCISCO FLORENCIO; FIMIANI, LETICIA; MARTÍ, GUILLERMO V.; MARTINEZ HEIMANN, DIEGO; DA SILVA MONTEIRO, DAVI; NEGRI, AGUSTÍN E.; PACHECO, ALBERTO J.; GOMES, PAULO R. S.

NUCLEAR PHYSICS A

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Lugar: Amsterdam; 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.