Coulomb breakup in a Transformed Harmonic Oscillator Basis

Abstract

The problem of Coulomb breakup in the scattering of a two-body loosely bound projectile by a heavy target is addressed. A basis of transformed harmonic oscillator (THO) wave functions is used to discretize the projectile continuum and to diagonalize the Hamiltonian of the two-body system. Results for the reaction ${}^8$B+${}^{58}$Ni at subcoulomb energies are presented. Comparison of different observables with those obtained with the standard Continuum Discretized Coupled-Channels (CDCC) method shows good agreement between both approaches.

5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C as Rapid Communication

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