THOMPSON , I. J.

The cross section for inelastic scattering of Borromean halo nuclei from protons is evaluated using the Multiple Scattering expansion of the Total transition amplitude (MST) formalism. Differential cross sections and energy spectra are shown for p-6 He at 700 MeV/nucleon. The role of spin flip excitations is analyzed.

The elastic scattering of the halo nucleus 6 He from a proton target at 717 MeV/nucleon is investigated within three different multiple-scattering formulations of the total transition amplitude. The factorized impulse approximation (FIA) and the fixed scatterer approximation (FSA) of the multiple-scattering expansion are used to evaluate...

Benchmark calculations are performed aiming to test the use of two different pseudostate bases on the multiple scattering expansion of the total transition amplitude scattering framework. Calculated differential cross sections for p-6 He inelastic scattering at 717 MeV/nucleon show a good agreement between the observables calculated in the two...

The structure of the Borromean nucleus 9Be (α+α+n) is addressed within a three-body approach using the analytical transformed harmonic oscillator method. The three-body formalism provides an accurate description of the radiative capture reaction rate for the entire temperature range relevant in astrophysics. At high temperatures, results match...

Background: Dynamic core-excitation effects have been found to be of importance in breakup reactions and may be of relevance when obtaining spectroscopic information from transfer reactions. Purpose: In this paper we extend the distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) formalism in order to allow for noncentral components in the core-core term...

The development of a continuum-bin scheme of discretization for three-body projectiles is necessary for studies of reactions of Borromean nuclei such as He6 within the continuum-discretized coupled-channels approach. Such a procedure, for constructing bin states on selected continuum energy intervals, is formulated and applied for the first...

The inclusion of the continuum in the study of weakly bound three-body systems is discussed. A transformed harmonic oscillator basis is introduced to provide an appropriate discrete and finite basis for treating the continuum part of the spectrum. As examples of the application of the method the strength functions corresponding to several...

The scattering of a weakly bound three-body system by a target is discussed. A transformed harmonic oscillator basis is used to provide an appropriate discrete and finite basis for treating the continuum part of the spectrum of the projectile. The continuum-discretized coupled-channels framework is used for the scattering calculations. The...

We explore the Hyperspherical Harmonics pseudostate method to describe the 6He continuum. The method is use it within the multiple scattering of the transition amplitude (MST) approach to study inelastic scattering of p-6He at 700 MeV/u.