Extraction of photocapture cross sections from direct Coulomb break-up reactions

1 May 1988

journal article
Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics

Vol. 14 (5) , L109-L113
https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4616/14/5/008

Abstract

The cross section for a direct Coulomb break-up reaction may be related, within the restriction of first-order processes, to the cross section for the inverse photocapture reaction. This relationship has a possible application in determining astrophysical interesting photocapture cross sections from break-up data. By specific analysis for a particular break-up reaction, ⁷Li to alpha +t at 70 MeV, it is shown however that secondary effects considerably complicate the relationship, and therefore erode its value for extracting astrophysical data.

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