
%0 Journal Article
%A McCarthy, lE 
%T Breakup Reactions at Intermediate Energy
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1976/12/01
%V 29
%N 6
%P 395-404
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH760561
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH760561 
%X Breakup reactions may be considered by a quasi-three-body model in which the two-body subsystems interact through optical model potentials with imaginary parts describing the excitation of unobserved channels. The distorted wave off-shell impulse approximation neglects only gradients of the optical model potentials. At sufficiently high energies it factorizes into a quantity describing the elementary two-body collision and a distorted wave transform of the bound-state wavefunction, which gives a distorted orbital momentum profile. Examples showing the validity of the approximation are given. 
