On the process of Coulomb dissociation of weakly bound relativistic nuclei and hypernuclei Original Research Article

Using the analogy with the problem of ionization and excitation of atoms at the propagation of relativistic charged particles through matter, the process of Coulomb dissociation of weakly bound relativistic nuclei and hypernuclei is theoretically investigated in the framework of the two-cluster deuteron-like model, taking into account the finite size of the target nucleus. It is shown that, due to the sharp dependence of the cross-section of Coulomb dissociation upon the binding energy, the experimental measurement of this cross-section in the case of weakly bound relativistic nuclei and hypernuclei allows one to determine the values of binding energy for these systems.