Elastic scattering and reaction mechanisms of the halo nucleus 11Be around the Coulomb barrier.

Collisions induced by {sup 9,10,11}Be on a {sup 64}Zn target at the same c.m. energy were studied. For the first time, strong effects of the {sup 11}Be halo structure on elastic-scattering and reaction mechanisms at energies near the Coulomb barrier are evidenced experimentally. The elastic-scattering cross section of the {sup 11}Be halo nucleus shows unusual behavior in the Coulomb-nuclear interference peak angular region. The extracted total-reaction cross section for the {sup 11}Be collision is more than double the ones measured in the collisions induced by {sup 9,10}Be. It is shown that such a strong enhancement of the total-reaction cross section with {sup 11}Be is due to transfer and breakup processes.