Double spectator poles and quasi-free inelastic scattering in the ${}^6\text{Li}\text{+}{}^6\text{Li}\text{→ 2α + 2}\text{d}$ reaction

Abstract

We have searched for double spectator pole events in the reaction ${}^6\text{Li}\text{+}{}^6\text{Li}\text{→ 2α + 2}\text{d}$, such that the deuteron from the projectile goes forward with the beam velocity while α or d from the target remains at rest. Triple coincidence studies of the reaction show such events, but with the 0° deuteron energy spectrum peaked at slightly higher velocities. Similar effects are seen in d-⁶Li double coincidence spectra from the single breakup reaction ${}^6\text{Li}\text{→}{}^6\text{Li}\text{+ α +}\text{d}$. Quasi-free inelastic scattering, where the d from the projectile receives no momentum transfer while the α excites the target to its first excited state, is also shown to be an important mechanism.