Coulomb dissociation of 8B: determination of the E2 component Original Research Article

The 7Be(p, γ)8B reaction has been studied at GSI via the Coulomb Dissociation of 8B at 254 A MeV, using the large acceptance spectrometer KAOS to detect the outgoing fragments. We have studied experimentally the E2 contribution to the Coulomb Dissociation by measuring the angular correlations of the breakup fragments. The resulting astrophysical S17 factor is compared to the results of other direct and indirect measurements.