DIEGO MARTÍNEZ , Raúl De

Core-excitation effects in the scattering of two-body halo nuclei have been investigated in previous works. In particular, these effects have been found to affect in a significant way the breakup cross sections of neutron-halo nuclei with a deformed core. To account for these effects, appropriate extensions of the continuum-discretized...

We reexamine the elastic and breakup observables of the 11Be + 64Zn reaction at the near-barrier energy of 28.7 MeV. The measured quasi-elastic data are compared with CDCC and extended CDCC (XCDCC) calculations, the latter including the effect of the 10Be deformation. The angular distribution of emitted 10Be fragments, reported in the original...

The effect of core excitation in the elastic scattering and breakup of a two-body halo nucleus on a stable target nucleus is studied. The structure of the weakly bound projectile is described in the weak-coupling limit, assuming a particle-rotor model. The eigenfunctions and the associated eigenvalues are obtained by diagonalizing this...

Background: The breakout from the hot Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxigen (CNO) cycles can trigger the rp-process in type I x-ray bursts. In this environment, a competition between 15O(α,γ )19Ne and the two-proton capture reaction 15O(2p,γ )17Ne is expected. Purpose: Determine the three-body radiative capture reaction rate for 17Ne formation including...

The resonant breakup of 19C on protons measured at RIKEN [Y. Satou et al., Phys. Lett. B 660, 320 (2008)] is analyzed in terms of a valence-core model for 19C that includes possible core excitations. The analysis of the angular distribution of a prominent peak appearing in the relative-energy spectrum could be well described with this model and...