Absorbing Boundary Condition Approach for Breakup Reactions of Halo Nuclei

Abstract

Application of the absorbing boundary condition is discussed to analyse breakup reactions of weakly bound nuclei. The key ingredient is an introduction of the absorbing potential outside the physical area which simulates the outgoing boundary condition approximately. The scattering problem is then recasted into the Schroedinger like equation with a source term in the interaction region and with the vanishing boundary condition at the boundary. We demonstrate usefulness of the method taking a few examples. Deuteron breakup reactions are examined comparing present results with those by the continuum-discretized coupled-channel method. We next discuss the breakup reactions of single-neutron halo nucleus, 11Be.