Deuteron breakup at extreme forward angles: Failure of a pure Coulomb dissociation description

C. Samanta, Sanjukta Mukherjee, Rituparna Kanungo, and D. N. Basu
Phys. Rev. C 53, 2287 – Published 1 May 1996
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Abstract

We present an analysis of recent measurement of the 56 MeV deuteron breakup data on C12, Ca40, and Pb208 targets taken by Okamura et al.. The cross section measured at θp=θn=0° was claimed to be a strong evidence of Coulomb breakup, especially in light nuclei. However, the single-step pure Coulomb breakup formalism fails to describe both the magnitude and the shape of the triple differential cross section even in light nuclei. At 56 MeV incident deuteron energy, the nuclear interference effect is found to be significant in all the above nuclei. The prior form distorted-wave Born-approximation calculations with unusual optical potentials in the exit channel can reproduce the highly asymmetric shapes of the triple differential cross section at the extreme forward angle, but, fail to give their exact magnitude. The possible role of multistep processes is discussed. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

  • Received 19 May 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.53.2287

©1996 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

C. Samanta, Sanjukta Mukherjee, and Rituparna Kanungo

  • Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta-700064, India

D. N. Basu

  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta-700064, India

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Vol. 53, Iss. 5 — May 1996

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