Reactions induced by ${}^9$Be in a four-body continuum-discretized coupled-channels framework

Abstract

We investigate the elastic scattering of ${}^9$Be on ${}^{208}$Pb at beam energies above (50 MeV) and below (40 MeV) the Coulomb barrier. The reaction is described within a four-body framework using the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels (CDCC) method. The ${}^9$Be 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.

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear Physics, RABIDA15, La Rábida (Spain), June 1-5, 2015