Properties of nuclear and Coulomb breakup of 8B

Abstract

The dependence of breakup cross sections of 8B at 65 MeV/nucleon on the target mass number A_T is investigated by means of the continuum-discretized coupled-channels method (CDCC) with more reliable distorting potentials than those in the preceding study. The A_T^(1/3) scaling law of the nuclear breakup cross section is found to be satisfied only in the middle A_T region of 40 < A_T < 150. The interference between nuclear and Coulomb breakup amplitudes vanishes in very forward angle scattering, independently of the target nucleus. The truncation of the relative energy between the p and 7Be fragments slightly reduces the contribution of nuclear breakup at very forward angles, while the angular region in which the first-order perturbation theory works well does not change essentially.

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures; To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.78, No.8. More detailed discussion on the vanishment of the nuclear-Coulomb interference at 0 degrees, new typeset using JPSJ style file