THRESHOLD AND CONTINUUM STRUCTURES IN EXOTIC NUCLEI

I.J. THOMPSON; B.V. DANILIN; J.MORTIMER; T. TARUTINA; J. TOSTEVIN

Kurokawa Village, Niigata

Simposio; A NEW ERA OF NUCLEAR STRUCTURE PHYSICS; 2003

Physical Society of Japan

The role of continuum states in nuclei is considered, along with use of breakup theories of stripping and diffractive dissociation in probing nuclear structure. In the breakup of three-body nuclei such as Borromean halo systems, both three-body and two-body continuum final states need to be modelled and measured.