A transfer to the continuum formalism for the study of (p, pn) and (p, 2p) reactions on unstable nuclei.

Abstract

In this work, we present a new reaction form alism to describe these reactions and obtain nuclear inform ation from them, which we have called Transfer to the Continuum. With this formalism, we undertake the analysis of several (p,pn) and (p,2p) reactions on both stable and exotic nuclei at interm ediate energies, and provide an answer for the open problem of the reduction or “quenching” of spectroscopic factors as a function of the proton-neutron asym metry. We also extend the formalism to study the exotic Borrom ean nuclei, building a reliable method to relate experimental energy distributions to nuclear structure calculations.