Final state three-body Coulomb effects in the 208Pb(8B,7Bep)208Pb Coulomb breakup reaction

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Mar 28;90(12):122701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.122701. Epub 2003 Mar 25.

Abstract

We present results of the first calculation of the double differential cross section for the 208Pb(8B,(7)Bep)208Pb Coulomb breakup reaction which treats the postdecay acceleration of the ejectiles within a genuine three-body approach. From this we conclude that, in order to minimize postdecay Coulomb acceleration effects, experiments should be performed at as small as possible scattering angles, not too low 7Be-p relative energies, and high incident energy.