Coulomb breakup of neutron-rich isotopes of light nuclei

Abstract

The effects of higher order multipole transitions, in particular, E2 and E1–E2 interference, in the Coulomb dissociation of neutron-rich nuclei 11Be, 14B, 15C, and 19C on Pb targets at energies of 72, 86, 550, and 77 A MeV, respectively, within the framework of the eikonal-approximation approach are studied. The main steps involved in the derivation of the explicit expressions corresponding to dipole, quadrupole, and dipole-quadrupole-interference terms are outlined. The calculations reveal that the contribution of E2 transitions to the total cross section is finite but small, while that ofE1–E2 interference is nil.Nevertheless, the E1–E2 interference term introduces small distortions in the peak of the relative-energy spectrum. The calculated results are compared with the corresponding data and the comparison favors a value of 0.530 MeV as the ground-state binding energy of 19C.