Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Breakup of the proton halo nucleus 8B near barrier energies

  • L. Yang,
  • C. J. Lin,
  • H. Yamaguchi,
  • A. M. Moro,
  • N. R. Ma,
  • D. X. Wang,
  • K. J. Cook,
  • M. Mazzocco,
  • P. W. Wen,
  • S. Hayakawa,
  • J. S. Wang,
  • Y. Y. Yang,
  • G. L. Zhang,
  • Z. Huang,
  • A. Inoue,
  • H. M. Jia,
  • D. Kahl,
  • A. Kim,
  • M. S. Kwag,
  • M. La Commara,
  • G. M. Gu,
  • S. Okamoto,
  • C. Parascandolo,
  • D. Pierroutsakou,
  • H. Shimizu,
  • H. H. Sun,
  • M. L. Wang,
  • F. Yang,
  • F. P. Zhong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34767-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Halo-structured nuclei are examples of many-body open quantum system. Here the authors use a complete kinematics measurement and find an elastic breakup of proton halo nucleus 8B.