https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00526-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A description of the structure and electromagnetic breakup of 
Be with microscopic inputs
1
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 247 667, Roorkee, India
2
Department of Physics, Hokkaido University, 060-0810, Sapporo, Japan
3
Nuclear Reaction Data Centre, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, 060-0810, Sapporo, Japan
4
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, 567-0047, Ibaraki, Japan
Received:
26
December
2020
Accepted:
13
June
2021
Published online:
24
June
2021
We study both the static properties of Be and its reaction dynamics during electromagnetic breakup under a unified framework. A many-body approach—the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) is used to describe the structure of the neutron-halo nucleus, Be. The same AMD wave function is then adapted as an input to the fully quantum theory of Coulomb breakup under the aegis of the finite range distorted wave Born approximation theory. The calculated observables are also compared with those obtained with a phenomenological Woods-Saxon potential model wave function. The experimental core-valence neutron relative energy spectrum and dipole response along with other observables are well described by our calculations.
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