6Li breakup from 208Pb target at Coulomb barrier energies: doorway to reaction mechanism induced by loosely bound/halo nuclei

The breakup cross section of the system 6 Li + 208 Pb has been measured at four beam energies close to the Coulomb barrier and the excitation energy distributions of the α + d/ 6 Li * system have been deduced. Comparison of the experimental data with two different theoretical approaches strongly supports the direct breakup process description.