Reactions induced by 9Be in a four-body continuum-discretized coupled-channels framework

We investigate the elastic scattering of 9Be on 208Pb at beam energies above (50MeV) and below (40MeV) the Coulomb barrier. The reaction is described within a four-body framework using the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels (CDCC) method. The 9Be projectile states are generated using the analytical Transformed Harmonic Oscillator (THO) basis in hyperspherical coordinates. Our calculations confirm the importance of continuum effects at low energies.