7Be- and 8B-reaction dynamics at Coulomb barrier energies

We investigated the reaction dynamics induced by the Radioactive Ion Beams 7 Be and 8 B on a 208 Pb target at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The two measurements are strongly interconnected, being 7 Be ( S α = 1.586 MeV) the loosely bound core of the even more exotic 8 B ( S p = 0.1375 MeV) nucleus. Here we summarize the present status of the data analysis for the measurement of the elastic scattering process for both reactions and the preliminary results for the optical model analysis of the collected data.