Abstract:
For heavy-ion nuclear reactions induced by the weakly-bound
6,7Li and tightly-bound
12C at near Coulomb-barrier energy region, plenty of α products have been detected experimentally in the early studies. However, the reaction mechanisms of heavy-ions in the near Coulomb-barrier energy region are complex. The origins of α particles still remain unsolved. For lighter projectiles such as
6,7Li, and
9Be, α particles may originate from inelastic excitation followed by breakup process, or resonant states of projectile-like nuclei like
8Be populated by nucleon transfer. The subsequent breakup of
8Be poses a significant challenge for the experimental identification for
8Be. For tightly-bound nuclei like ¹²C, the situation is equally complex. Disentangling the sources of α particles and identifying the reaction mechanisms are essential for developing the low-energy heavy-ion reaction theory. However, due to the limitations of previous silicon detector technology, the kinematic coincidence measurements for the two breakup products were scare, particularly in the direct determination of the reaction channel (
12C,
8Be→2α). For identifying the ground state
8Be, the experiment using kinematic reconstruction method was carried out at the R60º nuclear reaction terminal of the Beijing HI-13 Tandem Accelerator at the China Institute of Atomic Energy. Two ∆
E-
E silicon-strip detector telescopes were used for a kinematic coincidence measurement of the two α breakup fragments from the projectile-like ground-state
8Be in the
12C+
209Bi reaction. The experimental information of the relative energy
Erel, opening angle
θ12 and breakup direction angle
β of the two α was kinematically reconstructed. The obtained results align well with the asymptotic breakup behavior of the long-lifetime ground-state
8Be. This study successfully reconstructed the properties of the long-lifetime breakup nucleus, providing groundwork for future investigation of the breakup of nuclei with short-lifetime and underlying reaction mechanisms.