Breakup reactions to probe nuclear structure at the limit of stability

When?

Thursday 4 August 2011, 14:00

Where?

30 BB 03 Physics Seminar Room

Open to:

Staff, Students

Speaker:

Takashi Nakamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo

Breakup reactions at intermediate/high energies have played important roles in investigating nuclear structure at the stability limit. In this talk, I would like to characterize the Coulomb and nuclear breakup reactions to probe the weakly-bound halo states as well as unbound states. The topics I focus are the recent inclusive breakup measurements of carbon and neon isotopes [1] at about 230 MeV/nucleon at RIBF, RIKEN.  I also would like to talk about the study of 13Be unbound states [2]. Finally, I introduce the project "SAMURAI" at RIBF, which will be used for further studying the structures of neutron-drip line nuclei via breakup reactions.   

[1] T. Nakamura et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 262501 (2009).

[2] Y.Kondo, TN et al., Phys. Lett. B 690, 245 (2010).