Reaction rates from Coulomb dissociation: Core excitation effects
  A process, involving the 7Be core excitation in the Coulomb breakup of 8B into p + 7Be has been investigated. From the experimental results recently obtained in RIKEN we have derived the mixing amplitude of the   | 7Be(1/2-) X (1p_{3/2}); 2+> configuration in the ground state of 8B. Implications on the evaluation of the S17 at stellar energies are discussed. 
A. Mengoni (1,2), T. Motobayashi (3), T. Otsuka (2) ((1) ENEA,   Bologna, (2) The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, (3) Rikkyo Uni...