ESCRIG , D.

The optical model, and its applications to elastic, inelastic and transfer reactions is reviewed. The applicability of the optical model to the collisions of exotic nuclei is discussed. The sensitivity of recent experimental data of elastic scattering of 6He on 208Pb to the characteristics of the optical potential is investigated.

Experiments on halo nuclei at energies around the Coulomb barrier can provide good quality data on elastic, inelastic, breakup and nucleon transfer reactions. This information turns out to be very important to understand the structure and dynamics of these exotic nuclei. In this work we present relevant results obtained from recent scattering...

Recent developments aimed to understand the observed features arising in the scattering of the Borromean nucleus 6He on heavy targets are discussed and compared with recent data for 6He+208Pb measured at the RIB facility at Louvain-la-Neuve at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The analysis of the elastic scattering data in terms of the...