PHYSICAL REVIEW C 96, 034615 (2017) Global description of the 7 Li + p reaction at 5.44 MeV/u in a continuum-discretized coupled-channels approach A. Pakou, 1 , * F. Cappuzzello, 2, 3 N. Keeley, 4 L. Acosta, 5, 6 C. Agodi, 2 X. Aslanoglou, 1 S. Calabrese, 2, 3 D. Carbone, 2 M. Cavallaro, 2 A. Foti, 3, 6 G. Marquínez-Durán, 7 I. Martel, 7 M. Mazzocco, 8, 9 C. Parascandolo, 10 D. Pierroutsakou, 10 K. Rusek, 11 O. Sgouros, 1 V. Soukeras, 1 E. Strano, 8, 9 V. A. B. Zagatto, 12 and K. Zerva 1 1 Department of Physics and HINP, The University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece 2 INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, via Santa Sofia 62, 95125 Catania, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Catania, via Santa Sofia 64, 95125 Catania, Italy 4 National Centre for Nuclear Research, ulica Andrzeja Soltana 7, 05-400 Otwock, Poland 5 Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico Distrito Federal 01000, Mexico 6 INFN-Sezione di Catania, via Santa Sofia 64, 95125 Catania, Italy 7 Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Campus de El Carmen, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain 8 Departimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy 9 INFN-Sezione di Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy 10 INFN-Sezione di Napoli, via Cinthia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy 11 Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, ulica Pasteura 5a, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland 12 Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Avenida General Milton Tavares de Souza, Niterói, Brazil (Received 11 June 2017; revised manuscript received 22 August 2017; published 21 September 2017) The complete set of open channels for the 7 Li + p system, namely elastic scattering, inelastic scattering, breakup, the 7 Li + p → 7 Be + n charge exchange reaction, and the 7 Li + p → 4 He + 4 He reaction, was measured in the same experiment in inverse kinematics at an energy of 5.44 MeV/u. Data were also obtained for the charge exchange reaction at energies of 5.0 and 3.57 MeV/u. The elastic and inelastic scattering and breakup data were reported previously and are reviewed here and, together with the new data for the other two reactions, are discussed coherently within the same continuum-discretized coupled-channels model framework. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.034615 I. INTRODUCTION As part of an extensive program investigating proton scattering from weakly bound nuclei in inverse kinematics we recently considered the 7 Li + p elastic scattering at several near-barrier energies (2.29, 3.57, 5.0, and 5.44 MeV/u[1]). The measurements were performed using the MAGNEX spectrometer [2] of the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN LNS) and the data were analyzed within the continuum-discretized coupled- channels (CDCC) approach. However, for a more effective interpretation of the experimental data in a channel coupling scheme a global investigation of all the reaction channels involved is necessary. In this spirit, we consider in this article simultaneous measurements of all open channels involved in the 7 Li + p reaction at 5.44 MeV/u(E/V C ∼ 7), that is, elastic scattering, inelastic scattering, breakup, the charge exchange reaction 7 Li + p → 7 Be + n to the ground and first excited states of 7 Be, and the transfer/compound nucleus reaction 7 Li + p → 4 He + 4 He, all on the same footing. Data for the charge exchange reactions at 5.0 and 3.57 MeV/u are also presented. The elastic and inelastic scattering and breakup reaction channels were reported previously [1,3]. The effect of the breakup coupling on the elastic scattering is investigated in more detail and the new data for the * apakou@cc.uoi.gr charge exchange and the (p,α) reactions are compared with previous measurements [4–6]. As the output of our CDCC calculations includes not only elastic, inelastic, and breakup angular distributions but also a total absorption cross section, these two reactions enable us further to test our CDCC calculations since the absorption cross section of the CDCC calculations should be equal to the sum of the measured charge exchange and (p,α) reactions, these being the only two open channels in this energy regime not explicitly included in the coupling scheme. Since the new complete data set at 5.44 MeV/u reported here was taken simultaneously in the same experiment, the absolute normalization of the individual channels is well established. The good agreement with the existing data for the charge exchange and (p,α) reactions where the two sets of measurement overlap therefore enables us to compare these data with our CDCC calculations at 5.0, 3.57, and 2.29 MeV/u where complete data sets were not obtained in a single experiment. II. EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS The experiment was performed at the INFN LNS in Catania, Italy, with data taken at incident 7 Li beam energies of 16, 25, 35, and 38.1 MeV. A description of the experimental setup may be found in Refs. [1,3] and only details pertinent to this work are given here. Simultaneously with the elastic and inelastic scattering reported in Ref. [1] data were collected for 7 Be (ground and first excited states) originating from the 2469-9985/2017/96(3)/034615(6) 034615-1 ©2017 American Physical Society