Studying 12Bvia 8Li‐αresonant scattering

The inverse kinematics thick target scattering method (TTIK) has been used to study the 8Li elastic scattering on 4He in order to investigate 8Li‐α cluster configurations in excited states of 12B. A 8Li beam, provided by the radioactive beam facility EXCYT, at Ebeam = 30.6 MeV, passing through helium thick target, continuosly decreases its energy inducing elastic scattering starting from the initial energy down to zero. Four ΔE‐E double stage silicon detector telescopes were used to detect the recoil α‐particles coming from the scattering. Event by event time measurement between beam particles passing through a MCP detector and α‐particles impinging on ΔE stage allows elastic from inelastic events discrimination, thus representing an improvement of the TTIK method. In this paper the used experimental technique and some preliminary results will be briefly described.