Ratio of angular distributions, a new tool to study halo nuclei

When?

Tuesday 1 March 2011, 14:00 to 15:00

Where?

30 BB 03 Physics Seminar Room

Open to:

Staff, Students

Speaker:

Pierre Capel, Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Institut fur Kernphysik of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz

Halo nuclei are light neutron-rich nuclei that exhibit a strongly clusterised structure: they can be viewed as a core that contains most of the nucleons, to which one or two neutrons are loosely-bound. Owing to their low separation energy, these neutrons tunnel far from the classically-allowed region and form a sort of halo around the core. This exotic nuclear structure is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies. During this seminar, I will present a new way of extracting information about the halo structure using angular distributions for elastic scattering and breakup.

Pierre Capel Presentation (770.16KB - Requires Adobe Reader)