Elastic scattering and direct reactions of the 1n halo 11Be nucleus on 64Zn near the barrier

Abstract

Elastic scattering and direct reactions have been studied for the collisions induced by the three Beryllium isotopes 9,10,11Be, on a medium mass 64Zn target at energies near the Coulomb barrier. The elastic-scattering angular distribution of the 11Be halo nucleus shows a deviation from the classical Fresnel type diffraction behavior in the Coulomb-nuclear interference peak angular region. The deduced total reaction cross-sections for the 11Be collision is more than a factor of two than the ones measured in the collisions induced by 9;10Be. Moreover, for 11Be a large contribution to the total reaction cross-section due to transfer and break-up processes has been observed.