E1-E2 interference in the Coulomb dissociation of B-8 - art. no. 065804

We investigate the effects arising out of the E1-E2 interference in the Cou lomb dissociation of B-8 at beam energies below and around 50 MeV/nucleon. The theory has been formulated within a first order semiclassical scheme of Coulomb excitation, in which both the ground state and the continuum state wave functions of B-8 enter as inputs. We find that the magnitude of the i nterference could be large in some cases. However, there are some specific observables which are free from the effects of the E1-E2 interference, whic h is independent of the models used to describe the structure of B-8. This will be useful for the analysis of the breakup data in relation to the extr action of the astrophysical factor S-17(0).