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Electromagnetic dissociation and soft giant dipole resonance of the neutron-dripline nucleus 11Li

  • T. Kobayashi*
  • , S. Shimoura
  • , I. Tanihata
  • , K. Katori
  • , K. Matsuta
  • , T. Minamisono
  • , K. Sugimoto
  • , W. Müller
  • , D. L. Olson
  • , T. J.M. Symons
  • , H. Wieman
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The electromagnetic dissociation (EMD) cross sections of light neutron-dripline projectile 11Li have been inferred from the target dependence of the interaction cross section, σ1, and the two-neutron-removal cross section, σ-2n, at an incident energy of 0.8 GeV/nucleon. The EMD cross sections of 11Li projectiles on a lead target were found to be quite large; σIEMD(11Li+Pb)=1.72 ±0.65b and σ-2nEMD(11Li+Pb)=0.89 ±0.10b, which are approximately 80 times larger than those of 12C projectiles after scaling the cross section by Zproj2. The large EMD cross section is related to the possible existence of a soft mode of the giant dipole resonance at low excitation energy in the extremely neutron-rich nuclei.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)51-55
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume232
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Nov 1989
Externally publishedYes

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