The role of breakup in near-barrier 6Li+208Pb scattering

Continuum-discretized-coupled-channels (CDCC) calculations for the 6Li+208Pb system have been performed at several near-barrier energies using a cluster-folding (CF) model description of the 6Li-target interactions. Good agreement with the elastic scattering angular distributions is obtained without the need for re-normalization of the CF potential. Decomposition of the calculated 6Li sequential breakup cross section into Coulomb and nuclear components shows that the forward angle cross section is dominated by the Coulomb amplitude at near-barrier energies.