Coulomb dissociation, a tool for nuclear astrophysics

Abstract

A short status report on Coulomb dissociation, an indirect method for nuclear astrophysics is given. An analytically solvable approach to study electromagnetic excitation in ^{11}Be, the archetype of a halo nucleus, is proposed.

Comments: 6 pages, contribution to Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics III, 26-31 March 2007, Dresden, Germany, typos corrected, accepted for publication in J.Phys. G