  The breakup of the radioactive 17F nucleus into a proton and 16O is studied
for the reaction 17F + 208Pb --> p + 16O + 208Pb at 65 MeV/nucleon. The
possibility of using this reaction as a test case for studying dynamical
Coulomb reacceleration effects is assessed. It is shown that the reaction is
dominated by elastic nuclear breakup (diffraction dissociation).

Nuclear Theory