Eur. Phys. J. A (2018) 54: 189
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12622-3

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Study of the ¹⁰B(p,)⁷Be reaction by means of the Trojan Horse Method

¹ Laboratori Nazionali del Sud-INFN, Catania, Italy
² Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
³ IFIN-HH/ELI-NP, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
⁴ Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università “Kore”, Enna, Italy

^* e-mail: grapisarda@lns.infn.it

Received: 4 May 2018
Accepted: 2 October 2018
Published online: 8 November 2018

Abstract

The ¹⁰B(p,)⁷Be reaction has been studied for the first time via the Trojan Horse Method (THM) applied to the ²H(¹⁰B, ⁷Be)n quasi-free three-body process. The present experiment allowed for a clear separation between and channels thanks to the improved energy resolution with respect to previous THM studies of the ²H(¹⁰B, ⁷Be)n reaction. The extracted half-off-energy-shell cross section was found to be characterized by several structures attributable to the population of ¹¹C. In particular, six resonances have been observed at 10.086, 10.352, 10.525, 10.686, 10.841 and 10.976 MeV ¹¹C excitation energy.