Speaker
Description
R. Linares1
1 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, 24210-340, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Light nuclei away from the valley of stability are characterized by low binding energies for
valence nucleons, leading to the formation of an extended matter distribution that, in some
nuclei, appear as exotic configurations like halo (e.g. 8B and 11Be) and borromean (e.g. 6He
and 11Li) structures. These exotic structures manifest themselves in a nuclear collision as a
narrow momentum distribution of the fragments after breakup and enhancement of the
interaction cross section. These signatures are readily apparent at energies around the
Coulomb barrier (Vb).
In this talk I will cover some of the recent experimental results with exotic nuclei with
emphasis on proton-rich nuclei and the (possibly) limitations of the reduction method often
used to compare the reduced reaction cross sections among the systems.
