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The Trojan-horse method has been suggested as a means to study a two-body reaction at astrophysical energies via a three-body breakup reaction. In order to test this method the 6Li(12C,α12C)2H reaction was studied in a kinematically complete experiment at an incident energy of 18 MeV. Coincidence spectra show the presence of the quasi-free α-12C scattering process. The excitation function of the three-body reaction is calculated in the plane wave impulse approximation assuming quasi-free scattering and is compared with the experimental data. Also, the excitation function of the virtual α-12C elastic scattering is extracted from the three-body reaction cross section at low deuteron momenta and compared with the behaviour of the free scattering cross section.
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Received: 4 June 1999 / Revised version: 15 November 1999
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Spitaleri, C., Aliotta, M., Figuera, P. et al. The α-12C scattering studied via the Trojan-Horse method . EPJ A 7, 181–187 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013592
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013592