Simultaneous analysis of elastic, breakup, and fusion channels for 6He induced reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier

Abstract

We present some recent applications of the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels (CDCC) and Coupled-Reaction-Channels (CRC) methods to the study of reactions induced by weakly-bound nuclei on stable targets. The methods are applied to the scattering of the Borromean nucleus 6He at energies around the Coulomb barrier. Elastic scattering data are very well described by four-body CDCC calculations (based on a three-body description of the 6He nucleus) but also by simpler three-body CDCC calculations, using a suitable two-body model for 6He. By contrast, inclusive α data are better described using the CRC approach, which treats the breakup within the transfer to the continuum picture and, unlike the CDCC method, allows the inclusion of transfer to bound states of the target. We explore also the possibility of calculating the fusion cross sections using the CRC framework.