Probing surface distributions of a clusters in20Ne via α-transfer reaction

Abstract

Although several analyses of the α-transfer reaction16O(6Li, d)20Ne using the distorted wave Born approximation have been performed with the aim to clarify the α-cluster structure of20Ne, they have resulted in poor information on the clustering due to insufficiency of models for the analyses. In this work we propose a precise model employing the coupled-channels Born approximation with the microscopically calculated cluster wave function to elucidate the surface manifestation of the α-particle in the ground state of20Ne. Our calculation has shown improvement of the theoretical calculation compared with that in the previous analyses. We have confirmed numerically that the angular distributed cross section at the forward angles probes only the surface region of the α-cluster wave function. The breakup effect of6Li has been investigated and concluded that only the back coupling is important for the (6Li, d) reaction.