A complete study of the main reaction channels for the 6,7Li 196Pt systems

• Grant number: 21/04761-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: July 01, 2021
• End date: April 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Romero Gasques
• Grantee: Maria Eduarda de Barros Alves Matos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 19/07767-1 - Nuclear reactions with weakly-bound or cluster-structured radioactive and stable nuclei, AP.TEM

Abstract

In recent years, a systematic study of reactions involving weakly bound nuclei has been carried out at the Open Laboratory of Nuclear Physics. The main goal of the project is to determine experimentally cross sections for different reaction channels for the 6,7Li + 196Pt systems. Measurements of angular distributions of elastic and inelastic scattering and transfer of nucleons will be carried out at the Open Laboratory of Nuclear Physics of the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, in energies around the Coulomb barrier. In addition, we intend to measure fusion cross sections for the reactions mentioned above at the TANDAR Laboratory in Argentina. The determination of different reaction channels represents a great challenge for theoretical models that aim to describe simultaneously different processes, and, therefore, has a fundamental role in understanding the reaction mechanisms associated with nuclear collisions in energies close to the Coulomb barrier. This project is inserted in the context of a thematic project of FAPESP, in which the supervisor of this work participates as a main researcher. (AU)