Reaction and inclusive-α cross sections with weakly bound ⁹Be projectile

In recent times, the reaction mechanisms involving weakly bound projectiles (WBP) have received much attention due to the recent availability of radioactive ion beams. In particular, for ⁹Be projectile, study related to nucleo synthesis of ¹²C via ⁹Be (α,n)¹²C reaction is important. In addition, ⁹Be has 3-body cluster structure with Borromean nature. The breakup thresholds for ⁹Be → ⁸Be+n → α + α +n and ⁹Be → ⁵He+α are 1.67 MeV and 2.47 MeV, respectively. There can be many reaction channels that can contribute to large-yield e.g. incomplete fusion, breakup or transfer breakup etc. In this respect, there are very few measurements of inclusive cross sections with ⁹Be projectile, that forms a major part of the reaction cross-section. In the present study, we have measured elastic scattering angular distributions to extract the reaction cross-sections and angular distributions to get inclusive cross sections with ⁹Be projectile for various targets. We have performed a systematic study of the present results with the data available in the literature