Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 150, 51-52 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00264-x

Continuum effects: Structure and reactions of ⁶He

¹ Centro de Física Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
² Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1065, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
³ Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK

Received: 31 January 2007
Published online: 8 December 2007

Abstract

A description of three-body weakly bound systems using the Transformed Harmonic Oscillator (THO) method is presented and applied to the study of the Borromean nucleus ⁶He. First, relevant structure observables are studied. Then, the THO method is applied to the study of ⁶He scattering within the Continuum-Discretized Coupled Channels (CDCC) framework.