The 
-12C scattering studied via the Trojan-Horse method
C. Spitaleri1,2 - M. Aliotta1,2 - P. Figuera1 - M. Lattuada1,3 - R.G. Pizzone1,2 - S. Romano1 - A. Tumino1,3 - C. Rolfs4 - L. Gialanella4 - F. Strieder4 - S. Cherubini5 - A. Musumarra5 - D - . Miljanic6 - S. Typel7 - H.H. Wolter7
1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche per l'Ingegneria, Università di Catania, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Catania, Italy
4 Institut für Experimentalphysik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
5 Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
6 Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
7 Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany
spitaleri@lns.infn.it
Received: 4 June 1999 / Revised version: 15 November 1999 Communicated by C. Signorini
Abstract
The Trojan-horse method has been suggested as a means to study
a two-body reaction at astrophysical energies via
a three-body breakup reaction. In order to test this method the
6Li(12C,
12C)2H reaction was studied in a kinematically complete experiment at an
incident energy of 18 MeV. Coincidence spectra show the presence of the
quasi-free -12C scattering process. The excitation function of the
three-body reaction is calculated in the
plane wave impulse approximation assuming quasi-free scattering and is compared
with the experimental data.
Also, the excitation function of the virtual -12C elastic scattering is
extracted
from the three-body reaction cross section at low deuteron momenta and compared
with the behaviour of the free scattering cross section.
PACS
24.50.+g direct reactions -
24.10 nuclear reactions models- and methods -
26.20.+f hydrostatic stellar nucleosynthesis
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