Dipole polarizability refers to the effect of the excitation to negative parity states through the electric dipole interaction. In nuclear reactions induced by stable beams, dipole polarizability does not play a major role. For nuclei close to the drip lines where the separation energies of neutrons or protons are small, a substantial part of the dipole strength function occurs at low excitation energies. We propose to investigate this effect by measuring elastic scattering and break-up of Li-11 at energies below the Coulomb barrier.

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