Breakup of the weakly bound 17F nucleus Original Research Article

The breakup of the radioactive 17F nucleus into a proton and 16O is studied for the reaction 17F+208Pb→p+16O+208Pb at 65 MeV/nucleon. The possibility of using this reaction as a test case for studying dynamical Coulomb reacceleration effects is assessed. It is shown that the reaction is dominated by elastic nuclear breakup (diffraction dissociation).