Study of continuum excitation by light weakly bound projectiles on proton target

Abstract

Elastic scattering and breakup angular distribution measurements for the systems 6,7 Li + p were performed at the MAGNEX facility of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS) in Catania, in the energy range of (2.3-5.4)AMeV. The breakup channel was identified and quantified adopting the algorithm MULTIP. Within this algorithm which is a Monte Carlo simulation code, the history of the breakup fragments can be tagged from the rest frame of the decay nucleus itself to the laboratory frame. Angular distribution data of both elastic scattering and breakup were analyzed under the same theoretical model and the influence of continuum on the elastic channel was investigated.