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Systematic analysis of $t$ and $^3$He breakup reactions

Nuclear Theory 2023-06-07 v2

Abstract

Systematic measurement of tt and 3^3He knockout processes is planned. The weakly-bound nature of these nuclei may affect the interpretation of forthcoming knockout reaction data. Purpose: We aim at clarifying breakup properties of tt and 3^3He by investigating their elastic and breakup cross sections. We employ the four-body continuum-discretized coupled-channels method with the eikonal approximation to describe the tt and 3^3He reactions. The breakup cross section of tt is found to be almost the same as that of 3^3He and is about one-third of that of dd. Coulomb breakup plays negligible role in the breakup of tt and 3^3He, in contrast to in the deuteron breakup reaction. It is found that tt and 3^3He tend to breakup into three nucleons rather than dd and a nucleon. It is shown that the breakup cross sections of tt and 3^3He are not as large as those of d but non-negligible. Because about 80% of them corresponds to the three-nucleon breakup process, a four-body breakup reaction model is necessary to quantitatively describe the breakup of tt and 3^3He.

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@article{arxiv.2303.10595,
  title  = {Systematic analysis of $t$ and $^3$He breakup reactions},
  author = {Shoya Ogawa and Shin Watanabe and Takuma Matsumoto and Kazuyuki Ogata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10595},
  year   = {2023}
}