The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP) presents Filomena Nunes, of NSCL/MSU, presenting “The Radio Method to Study Halo Nuclei,” on Tuesday, April 12, at at 4 p.m. in Edwards Accelerator Lab, Roger W. Finlay Conference Room.
Filomena Nunes
Abstract: The continued interest in nuclear halos calls for improved methods in the extraction of their properties from reaction observables. The most popular way to study halo nuclei is through breakup reactions. Breakup cross sections are large, and they contain information about the binding energy, angular momentum and size of the original halo system. However, the analysis of a breakup experiment contains also uncertainty in the reaction model, particularly the effective interactions used to describe the system. Of special concern is the core-target interaction, which is usually not well known. In the last few years we have developed a method that circumvents this ambiguity. I will first discuss reactions studies performed at around 70 MeV/u, because many of previous breakup experiments were performed in this energy regime. I will also discuss more recently result to test the ratio method at lower energy, appropriate for new facilities such as SPIRALII and FRIB.
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