Halo Excitation of ${}^6$He in Inelastic and Charge-Exchange Reactions

Abstract

Four-body distorted wave theory appropriate for nucleon-nucleus reactions leading to 3-body continuum excitations of two-neutron Borromean halo nuclei is developed. The peculiarities of the halo bound state and 3-body continuum are fully taken into account by using the method of hyperspherical harmonics. The procedure is applied for A=6 test-bench nuclei; thus we report detailed studies of inclusive cross sections for inelastic ${}^6$He(p,p')${}^6$He${}^{\ast }$ and charge-exchange ${}^6$Li(n,p)${}^6$He${}^{\ast }$ reactions at nucleon energy 50 MeV. The theoretical low-energy spectra exhibit two resonance-like structures. The first (narrow) is the excitation of the well-known $2^{+}$ three-body resonance. The second (broad) bump is a composition of overlapping soft modes of multipolarities $1^{-},2^{+},1^{+},0^{+}$ whose relative weights depend on transferred momentum and reaction type. Inelastic scattering is the most selective tool for studying the soft dipole excitation mode.

Submitted to Phys. Rev. C., 11 figures using epsf

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