Eur. Phys. J. A (2018) 54: 140
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12572-8

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Sub-barrier fusion of ¹¹Li with ²⁰⁸Pb

¹ Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 97331, Corvallis, OR, USA
² Department of Physics, University of Calicut, 673635, Malappuram, Kerala, India
³ TRIUMF, V6T 2A3, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

^* e-mail: lovelanw@onid.orst.edu

Received: 25 January 2018
Accepted: 19 July 2018
Published online: 28 August 2018

Abstract

We have extended our previous measurements of the complete fusion and breakup fusion processes in the interaction of ¹¹Li with spherical ²⁰⁸Pb with four new measurements at laboratory frame energies of ¹¹Li of 26.1 to 32.7 MeV in the sub-barrier region. (Previous measurements were for to 39.9 MeV.) Comparison of the complete fusion cross sections with coupled channel, TDHF and other models for these collisions reveals significant differences between the measured and calculated values. The implications of this finding for the fusion/breakup of halo nuclei are discussed.