https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00335-1
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
Mechanism of the 
Sm(
Li,
Li
)
Sm reaction at 30 MeV
1
Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5a, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
2
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, via F. Marzolo 8, 35131, Padova, Italy
3
INFN-Sezione di Padova, via F. Marzolo 8, 35131, Padova, Italy
4
National Centre for Nuclear Research, ul. Andrzeja Sołtana 7, 05-400, Otwock, Poland
5
Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306, Florida, USA
Received:
26
October
2020
Accepted:
15
December
2020
Published online:
6
January
2021
In a recent experiment investigating the origin of the 
particle yield in the Li + Sm system the measured 
coincidences at a bombarding energy of 30 MeV were shown to arise from decay of the 2.186-MeV 
resonance of Li. In this work we demonstrate that the laboratory frame particle angular distribution extracted from these data can be well described by a standard coupled channels Born approximation calculation and, furthermore, that the mechanism is dominated by direct, one-step single neutron stripping to the resonance, as shown previously for the Li + 
Cu and 
Nb systems.
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021
