ALPHA SPECTROSCOPIC FACTOR OF 16O FROM ITS BREAKUP USING CONTINUUM DISCRETIZED COUPLED CHANNEL (CDCC) METHOD

Abstract

In this work we extract the alpha spectroscopic factor ( S α) of 16 O ground state from breakup reaction. The CDCC theory is used to extract S α by comparison with 16 O breakup data from a light target (27 Al ). Extracted values show a small dependence on the single particle binding potential of 16 O at forward angles. At incident energies between 72 to 125 MeV S α varies from 2.29-2.83 (Wood Saxon binding potential) and between 2.42-3.72 (Gaussian potential).